Croniche di Messer Giovanni Villani cittadino fiorentino : nelle quali si tratta dell'origine di Firenze, & di tutti e fatti & guerre state fatte da Fiorentini nella Italia ..

Villani, Giovanni, d. 1348, John Adams Library (Boston Public Library) BRL, Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner, Fasolo, Giacomo, additional author · 1537 · Stampate in Vinetia : Per Bartholomeo Zanetti Casterzagense · 1 picture

A 1537 Venetian printing of Giovanni Villani's chronicle of Florence, printed by Bartholomeo Zanetti and later owned by John Adams, with woodcut illustrations attributed to Giacomo Fasolo. The single picture is a woodcut of a nude, bearded wild man standing beside a tree trunk against a cloud-filled sky, drawn with dense parallel hatching that a designer could borrow for figure and foliage texture.

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