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Dissertazione in cui si investiga quali sieno le operazioni che dependono dalla magia diabolica e qvali qvelle che derivano dalle magie artificiale e naturale, e qual cautela si ha da usare nella malagevolezza di discernerle / di Costantino Grimaldi. [Edited by Ginesio Grimaldi].

Costantino Grimaldi, Baldi, Antonio, 1692-approximately 1778, Garcia, Gaetano, Grimaldi, Ginesio, 1702-1780 · 1751 · In Roma : Nella 'Stamperia di Pallade', appresso Niccolò, e Marco Pagliarini, 1751. · 7 pictures

An 18th-century Italian treatise on magic, written by Costantino Grimaldi and edited by Ginesio Grimaldi, printed in Rome in 1751 by the Stamperia di Pallade for a scholarly readership interested in diabolical, artificial and natural magic. Its pictures are small woodcut ornaments, including a rococo cartouche with a fruit basket, a historiated initial E with a ship and city, a historiated initial A with classical ruins, and a pair of winged griffins flanking a vase, useful to designers seeking baroque and classical decorative motifs.

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