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Facetie di Poggio firorentino : historiate, nuouamente ristampate, & con somma diligentia reuiste et corrette

Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459 · 1547 · In Vinegia : Per Francesco Bindoni, & Mapheo Pasini compagni · 17 pictures

Facetie di Poggio Fiorentino is a 1547 Venetian printed collection of humorous tales by the Florentine humanist Poggio Bracciolini, issued by Francesco Bindoni and Mapheo Pasini for a general reading public. Its small woodcut scenes, each headed with a numbered Facetia, show kneeling supplicants, gesturing figures and interiors with arched doorways and simple furniture, offering a designer clean block-cut figures and compact framing for narrative panels.

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