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Scielta di facetie, motti, bvrle & buffonerie di diuersi ... : doue si vede il modo di viuere acortamente

1661 · In Vicenza : Per Giouita Bottelli · 2 pictures

A 1661 Italian collection of jokes, witty sayings and buffoonery, printed in Vicenza by Giovita Bottelli for a general reading public. Its two pictures are small decorative woodcut initials: a letter I framed by leafy foliage and a flower, and a letter G set within scrolled corner ornaments, offering designers ready models for ornamental capitals and border frames.

Italian wit and humor · Wit and humor, Medieval

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