Orlando furioso

Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533, Francheschi, Francesco de, printer, Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565, Pigna, Giovan Battista, 1529-1575, Eugenico, Niccolo, Rota, Giovanni Battista, -1577, Bononome, Giuseppe, Camilli, Camillo, -1615, Garofalo, Girolamo, Porro, Girolamo, 1520-1604, illustrator, Groto, Luigi, 1541-1585, Franco, Giacomo, 1550-1620, engraver, Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533. Cinque canti, Lavezzola, Alberto, active 1584. Osservationi sopra tutto l'Ariosto, Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909, former owner, Terry, Roderick T., 1849-1933, former owner · 1584 · In Venetia : Appresso Francesco de Franceschi ... · 57 pictures

An Italian verse epic printed in Venice in 1584 by Francesco de Franceschi, with Girolamo Ruscelli and Giovan Battista Pigna's editorial work, aimed at a literate reading public. Its pages carry framed woodcut scenes with ornate border strapwork, each headed by a running title, so the book is a showcase for Renaissance print design. The pictures show crowded battle and landscape scenes with armoured knights, towers and distant cities, and a designer could take from them the dense, full-page compositional framing and the decorative border vocabulary of grotesque scrollwork.

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