De orbe nouo Petri Martyris ab Angleria Mediolanensis protonotarij C[a]esaris senatoris decades

Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526 · 1530 · Compluti : Apud Michaele[m] d[e] Eguia · 7 pictures

A 1530 Latin history of the New World, printed at Alcalá (Compluti) by Miguel de Eguía and written by Pietro Martire d'Anghiera, a humanist courtier of Charles V. The pictures are not illustrations but decorated typography: large woodcut historiated initials and ornamental headings set at the start of each chapter. A designer might take from them the dense black letterpress blocks, the ornate capitals with figures and foliage, and the rubricated chapter titles.

Indian linguistics · Imprint 1530

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