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Narratione della festa de' fuochi celebrata in Mantoua nell'anno 1667 per l'esaltatione al pontificato della Santità di N. S. papa Clemente nono

Osanna (Firm) · 1667 · In Mantova : Presso gli Osanna, stampatori ducali · 1 picture

A 1667 festival account printed in Mantua by the Osanna ducal printers, describing fireworks celebrating the elevation of Pope Clement IX to the papacy. The only picture is a woodcut-style printer's emblem: a papal tiara and crossed keys above a shield of four diamond-shaped charges, framed by scrolled cartouche work and a cherub head at the base. A designer could take from it the dense, symmetrical heraldic cartouche and the crisp black-on-white woodcut handling of ecclesiastical ornament.

Clement XI, Pope, 1649-1721 · Popes · Rites and ceremonies · Fireworks

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