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Relatione della giostra a campo aperto fatta in Siena : da' signori huomini d'arme sanesi alla Real Presenza de' serenissimi prencipi di Toscana

Marchetti, Salvestro, fl. 1597-1620 · 1602 · In Siena : Appresso Matteo Florimi, per Saluestro Marchetti · 4 pictures

A 1602 Italian account of a tournament held in Siena, printed by Matteo Florimi for Salvestro Marchetti and dedicated to Grand Duke Ferdinando I of Tuscany. Its pages carry black-and-white ornamental strapwork panels, a large decorated initial with small scenes of riders, and a roundel with a she-wolf suckling twins above a Latin motto, giving a designer period borders, initials and emblematic devices.

Ferdinando I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609 · Tournaments, Medieval

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library