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Cavacci, Giacomo, 1567-1612, Pignoria, Lorenzo, 1571-1631, editor, Valesio, Francesco, approximately 1560-, engraver, Pinelli, Antonio, 1570-1631, printer, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) · 1625 · Venetiis, In Typographia Pinelliana, 1625. · 72 pictures

A 1625 Venetian print of hermit biographies, edited by Lorenzo Pignoria and printed by Antonio Pinelli in the Pinelliana press for a Catholic readership interested in holy hermits. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each a letter enclosing a figure with a landscape of trees and hills, offering a designer compact framed capitals with figures to adapt for decorative drop caps.

Hermits · Italy · Venice

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