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La historia della città di Parma, et la descrittione del fivme Parma

Angeli, Bonaventura, 16th. cent · 1591 · In Parma : Appresso Erasmo Viotto · 11 pictures

A 1591 Italian history of the city of Parma and its river, printed in Parma by Erasmo Viotto and written by Bonaventura Angeli for a general readership. The pictures are small woodcut initials, each a large letter framed in a black border with a figure scene inside: a centaur with a bow, a wild man with a club, and a seated figure with a spired town behind, giving a designer compact Renaissance ornament for decorative capitals.

Parma River (Italy)

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library