M. Plauti linguae latinae principis comoediae XX recens ex collatione multorum codicum : q[ui] tum calamo scripti tum formulis excusi habeba[n]tur singulari diligentia recognitae : item eaedem comoediae o[mn]ibus fere locis co[m]mentationibus ornantur

Plautus, Titus Maccius, author, Saracenus, Bernardus, active 1500, Valla, Giovanni Pietro, active 1500, Pio, Giovanni Battista, -1540?, Soardi, Lazzaro de', approximately 1450-1517, printer · 1511 · Impressum Venetiis : Per Lazarum Soardum · 60 pictures

This is a 1511 Venetian printing of Plautus's twenty comedies in Latin, edited from many manuscripts and printed by Lazarus Soardus with scholarly commentaries for classical scholars and students. The pictures are small woodcut scenes of stage characters in tunics and robes beside rows of Latin text, with ornamental initial letters and labels naming the figures, which a designer could take as a model for Renaissance period costume and framed text-and-image layouts.

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