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Ragionamento del terremoto, del Nvovo monte, del aprimento di terra in Pozvolo nel anno 1538 : e dela significatione d'essi

Toledo, Piero Giacomo da, Pino, Giovanni Battista · 1539 · Stampata in Nap. : Per Giouanni Sulztbah alemano · 4 pictures

A 1539 Italian pamphlet printed in Naples by Giovanni Sulzbach, a German printer, recounting the 1538 earthquake and the new mountain that rose near Pozzuoli, written for a general readership. Three of the four pictures are decorative woodcut initials built from foliage and interlace inside square frames, and the fourth is a woodcut view of a smoking mountain above a coastline with labelled towns, offering a designer ready models of ornamental letterforms and early volcano scenery.

Earthquakes · Volcanoes

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