La prima[-quarta] parte de le novelle del Bandello

Bandello, Matteo, 1485-1561, Busdraghi, Vincenzo, 1524-1601, publisher, Marsilius, Alexandre, active 1570-1586, publisher, Roussino, Pietro, printer, Roxburghe, John Ker, Duke of, 1740-1804, former woner, Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner · 1554 · In Lucca : Per Il Busdrago · 1 picture

A 1554 Italian collection of novellas by Matteo Bandello, printed in Lucca by Vincenzo Busdraghi and Pietro Roussino for a general literary readership. The picture is a woodcut historiated initial L, a decorated capital letter with a bearded man and a seated figure inside its stem and a lion-like animal on the right. A designer could take from it the compact framed letterform and the dense, hatched black-and-white carving typical of sixteenth-century Italian printing.

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