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Discorsi politici di Paolo Paruta : nei quali si considerano diversi fatti illustri e memorabili di principi e di republiche antiche e moderne : aggiontovi nel fine un suo soliloquio nelquale l'auttore fa un breve essame di tutto il corso della sua vita

Paruta, Paolo, 1540-1598 · 1599 · In Venetia : Appresso Domenico Nicolini · 31 pictures

A 1599 Italian political discourse by the Venetian writer Paolo Paruta, printed in Venice by Domenico Nicolini and addressed to readers interested in the affairs of ancient and modern princes and republics. The four pictures are historiated and decorative woodcut initials, each a letter framed in scrolling foliage, with putti, grotesques and ornamental strapwork that a designer could adapt for monograms, borders or capitals.

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