Les loua[n]ges de la folie, : traicté fort plaisant en forme de paradoxe,

unknown, Albergati, Vianesio, -1532?, Persio, Ascanio, Landi, Ortensio, approximately 1512-approximately 1553, Tolomei, Claudio, 1492-1555, Du Thier, Jehan, active 16th century · 1566 · A Paris. : Pour Hertman Barbé marcha[n]t demeurant à Paris rue S. Iean de Beauuais. · 1 picture

A French translation of a satirical paradox in praise of folly, printed in Paris in 1566 by the bookseller Hertman Barbé for Parisian readers, with origins traced to Italian authors Albergati and Landi. The one picture is a heraldic coat of arms: a shield with a chevron, a crested helm, and scrolling mantling with a banner lettered beneath, rendered in fine engraved line. A designer could take the symmetrical scrollwork, the crest, and the cartouche framing as a model for ornamental emblems and bookplate-style armorial devices.

Folly · Indians of the North America · Indians of the South America

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