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Rosario della gloriosa Vergine Maria : con le stationi, & indulgentie delle chiese di Roma per tutto l'anno : di nuouo stampato, & ricorretto con nuoue & belle figure adornato

Castello, Alberto da, d. 1522 · 1591 · In Venetia : Presso Gio. Antonio Bertano · 269 pictures

A 1591 Italian devotional book printed in Venice by Gio. Antonio Bertano, a rosary guide by Alberto da Castello listing Rome's churches and indulgences for the faithful. Its woodcut pictures are framed by dense ornamental borders of scrolls, putti, and grotesques, with Latin or Italian captions above each scene, offering a designer a model of Renaissance framing and text-image layout.

Rosary · Mysteries of the Rosary

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