Della historia di Bologna [parte prima]

Ghirardacci, Cherubino, 1524?-1598, Rossi, Giovanni de', fl. 1556-1596 printer, Solimani, Aurelio Agostino, ed, Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL, John Adams Library (Boston Public Library) BRL · 1605 · In Bologna : Presso gli Heredi di Giouanni Rossi · 30 pictures

Della historia di Bologna is a 1605 Italian history of the city of Bologna, written by Cherubino Ghirardacci and printed in Bologna by the heirs of Giovanni Rossi. The four pictures are historiated and decorative initial letters, the large capitals E, F, I and a square E, each built from scrolling foliage with small figures and animals set inside the letter strokes. A designer could take from them the framed, interlaced initial with grotesque figures and acanthus-like scrolls, a model for ornamental capitals in an early modern printed style.

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