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La historia di Crema

Fino, Alemanio, d. ca. 1586, Terni, Pietro · 1566 · In Venetia : Appresso Domenico Farri · 12 pictures

La historia di Crema is a 1566 Italian local history of the town of Crema, written by Alemanio Fino and Pietro Terni and printed in Venice by Domenico Farri for a general reading public. Its pictures are historiated woodcut initials, letters P, E, C and D each framed and filled with small scenes of figures, landscape and architecture, offering a designer ready models for decorative capitals and framed narrative vignettes in a Renaissance manner.

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