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Lettere facete, e chiribizzose in lengua antiga, venitiana, et vna à la gratiana, con alguni sonetti, é canzoni piaseuoli venitiani, é toscani enel fin trenta villanelle a diuersi signori é do[n]ne lucchesi et altri

Belando, Vincenzo · 1588 · In Parigi : Appresso Abel l'Angelieri ... · 9 pictures

A 1588 Italian humorous letter collection by Vincenzo Belando, printed in Paris by Abel l'Angelier, mixing Venetian, Tuscan and macaronic verse with playful prose. The pictures are woodcut historiated initials, large decorative capitals with foliate scrolls, grotesque heads and figures set into the first letter of each section, and a designer might take from them the layered vine-and-grotesque framing used to open a text.

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