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Stanze belissime et ornatissime, intitvlate, le selve d'amore

Medici, Lorenzo de', 1449-1492 · 1522 · Stampato in Venetia : Per Zoã Frãcesco & Zoan Antonio fratelli di Rusconi · 2 pictures

Stanze belissime et ornatissime, intitvlate, le selve d'amore is a 1522 Italian verse book by Lorenzo de' Medici, printed in Venice by the Rusconi brothers, Giovanni Francesco and Zoan Antonio, for a general literary readership. Its pictures are a horizontal ornamental border of scrolling foliage and urns and a large block of spaced capital letters in the title panel, offering designers models for decorative frames and classical display lettering.

Love in poetry

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