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Les XV. livres de la Metamorphose d'Ovide, poete treselegant : contenants l'Olympe des hystoires poetiqves, traduitz de latin en françois

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D · 1574 · A Paris : Chez Hierosme de Marnef, & Guillaume Cauellat ... · 26 pictures

A 1574 Paris French translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, published by Hierosme de Marnef and Guillaume Cavellat, rendering the Latin poem into French for a literate readership. The small woodcut vignettes show mythological episodes in outdoor settings, with figures in landscape, hunting scenes and Renaissance dress, and suggest compact narrative staging for a designer working on dense, story-driven page layouts.

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