Rime di Madonna Gaspara Stampa

Stampa, Gaspara, ca. 1523-ca. 1554, Stampa, Cassandra, Pietrasanta, Plinio, fl. 1553-1557 (printer) · 1554 · In Venetia : Per Plinio Pietrasanta · 21 pictures

A 1554 Venetian poetry collection by Gaspara Stampa, printed by Plinio Pietrasanta for a Renaissance reading public. Its pictures are repeated woodcut headpieces, each a horizontal band of scrolling vine-leaf tendrils framing a bearded grotesque mask at centre, with dense hatched lines a designer could borrow for border ornament.

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