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Il tesoro di m. Brvnetto Latino Firentino, precettore del diuino poeta Dante, nelqual si tratta di tutte le cose che à mortali se appartengono

Latini, Brunetto, 1220-1295, Giamboni, Bono, fl. 1264, Burndy Library, donor. DSI · 1533 · [Venezia, M. Sessa] · 2 pictures

Il tesoro is a 1533 Venetian encyclopedia by Brunetto Latini, a 13th-century Florentine teacher of Dante, with its Italian text rendered by Bono Giamboni, offered to general readers on all matters of human life. Its pictures are a decorative title page framed by dense woodcut scrollwork, animal and foliage motifs, and a plain index page of columns, suggesting how a designer might borrow ornamental border systems and tight typographic layout.

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