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Oratione di m. Alberto Lollio ferrarese, nella morte del gentilissimo giouane m. Bartolomeo Ferrino ..

Lollio, Alberto, 1508-1568 · 1547 · In Vinegia : Appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari · 3 pictures

A 1547 Venetian funeral oration by Alberto Lollio of Ferrara, printed by Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari in Venice, mourning the young Bartolomeo Ferrino and addressed to a reverend patron. The pictures are woodcut title-page ornaments and a historiated initial S, with a cherub-flanked emblem, a phoenix in flames under a radiant sun, and a banner reading SEMPER, giving a designer examples of Renaissance printed decoration built on symmetry and emblematic motifs.

Ferrini, Bartolomeo, 1508-1545

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