La Gerusalemme di Torquato Tasso

Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595 · 1617 · In Genoua : Appresso Giuseppe Pauoni · 64 pictures

Tasso's epic poem about the First Crusade, printed in Genoa in 1617 by Giuseppe Pavoni, an Italian literary edition for a educated reading public. The pictures are small woodcut-style ornaments: a repeated cartouche with seated figures, flanking caryatid-like women, and a framed Italian argument text with scrolled borders, offering a designer tidy symmetrical frame and panel models.

Godfrey, of Bouillon, approximately 1060-1100 · Crusades, First, 1096-1099 · Godfrey, of Bouillon, approximately 1060-1100 -- Poetry · Crusades, First, 1096-1099 -- Poetry · Crusades

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