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Prima[-seconda] parte del Prontvario de le medaglie de piv illvstri & fulgenti huomini & donne : dal principio del mondo insino al presente tempo, con le lor vite in compendio raccolte

Rouillé, Guillaume, 1518?-1589 · 1553 · In Lione : Appresso Gvglielmo Rovillio · 156 pictures

This is a 1553 Italian illustrated book of portrait medals, the Prontuario de le medaglie, published in Lyon by Guglielmo Rovillio and compiled by Guillaume Rouillé. It gives short lives of famous men and women alongside woodcut images of their coins and medallions, aimed at a learned readership of antiquarians and humanists. The pictures are small, tightly circular woodcut medallions with carved lettering around each profile, offering a designer clear models for roundel frames, classical laurel and bust compositions, and inscription lettering set in a circle.

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