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Dve commedie del cavalier Lionardo Salviati : Il Granchio, e La Spina : e vn dialogo dell'amicizia del medesimo autore

Salviati, Lionardo, 1540-1589 · 1606 · In Firenze : Nella stamperia di Cosimo Givunti · 2 pictures

A 1606 Florentine printed edition of two comedies and a dialogue on friendship by the Italian courtier and writer Lionardo Salviati, issued by Cosimo Giunti's press in Florence for a literary readership. The first picture is a small woodcut initial C showing a grotesque figure wrestling a beast within a ring, and the second is a title page framed by a central ornament of a fleur-de-lis with a scrolled cartouche above the printer's imprint, both suggesting ornamental letterforms and classical typographic framing a designer could adapt.

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