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Delle lettere di M. Andrea Calmo, libro primo[-quarto] : nel quale si contiene varij, & ingeniosi discorsi filosofici, in piu lettere a diuersi indrizzate, compresi

Calmo, Andrea, approximately 1510-1571 · 1580 · In Vinegia : [Camillo Pincio] · 6 pictures

A 1580 Italian letter collection by the playwright Andrea Calmo, printed in Venice by Camillo Pincio and addressed to various correspondents on philosophical topics. Its pictures are small woodcut printer's ornaments: a symmetrical pair of birds flanking a carved mask cartouche beneath a fruit-and-leaf garland, and a historiated initial L with a bearded figure amid scrollwork. A designer could draw on the symmetrical cartouche layout and the dense, curling strapwork of the Renaissance initial.

Calmo, Andrea, approximately 1510-1571 · Dramatists, Italian

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