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Commentarii della gverra di Transilvania

Centorio, Ascanio, 16th cent, Centorio, Ascanio, 16th cent. Seconda parte de' commentarii delle guerre & de' successi più notabili · 1565 · In Vinegia, Appresso Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari · 34 pictures

A 1565 Venetian printed edition of Ascanio Centorio's commentaries on the wars in Transylvania, issued by Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari for a readership of Italian-language historical readers. Its pictures are small woodcut initials and decorative headpieces, with a grotesque mask cartouche, putti-flanked ornament, and a historiated initial showing a rider in combat, offering designers compact models for ornamental letterforms and framed title devices.

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