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Discorso di Agostino Michele, in cui contra l'opinione di tutti più illustri scrittori dell'arte poetica chiaramente si dimostra : come si possono scriuere con molta lode le comedie, e le tragedie in prosa : et di molti altri precetti di cotal arte assai copiosamente si ragiona

Michele, Agostino · 1592 · In Venetia : Appresso Gio. Battista Ciotti · 16 pictures

A 1592 Italian treatise on poetics by Agostino Michele, printed in Venice by Giovanni Battista Ciotti for readers of dramatic theory, arguing that comedies and tragedies may be written in prose. The pictures are decorative woodcut initials, some tall and foliated with curling acanthus-like scrollwork in black and white, others a plain ornamental capital R with leafy borders, offering designers historical models for display letters and ornamental capitals.

Poetics -- Early works to 1800 · Comedy · Tragedy

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