Iacobi Philippi Tomasini Patauini ... Petrarcha rediuiuus : integram poetae celeberrimi vitam iconibus aere celatis exhibens : accessit nobilissimae foeminae Laurae breuis historia
Petrarcha rediuiuus is a 1635 Latin biography of the poet Petrarch by Giacomo Filippo Tomasini, printed in Padua for a learned readership and including a short life of Laura. Its pictures are small engraved and woodcut scenes and decorative initials, with an engraved frontispiece of a pedestal inscription before a hilly town view, and a designer could draw on their compact landscape vignettes and ornamental capitals for historical or literary print work.























