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Descritione della pompa fvnerale fatta nelle esseqvie del sermo. sig. Cosimo de' Medici, gran duca di Toscana : nell' alma città di Fiorenza il giorno xvij. di maggio dell' anno MDLXXIIII

Bazzanti, Maggio, 16th cent. In obitum Cosmi Medices magni Hetruriae ducis carmen · 1574 · In Fiorenza : Appresso i Giunti · 5 pictures

A 1574 Florentine printed account, published by the Giunti press, describing the funeral pageant for Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici of Tuscany, held in Florence in May 1574. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, a bust portrait in an oval frame, and an urn ornament with putti, showing how Renaissance printers framed a funeral text with decorative borders and emblems.

Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574 · Funeral rites and ceremonies

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