Hieronymi Balbi episcopi Gurcensis Ad Carolum V. Impe. de coronatione

Balbi, Girolamo, approximately 1460-approximately 1535 · 1530 · [Bologna] : Ioannes Baptista Phaellus Bononiẽsis Bononiae impressit · 1 picture

A 1530 Latin treatise by the bishop Girolamo Balbi, printed in Bologna by Giovanni Battista Faelli, addressed to Emperor Charles V on the subject of imperial coronation. The title page, the only picture here, is set in a bold woodcut frame with two classical female figures holding up a vine-draped border above a band of carved reliefs, a strong model for architectural title-page layouts and symmetrical framing.

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558 · Holy Roman Empire. Emperor (1519-1556 : Charles V) · Coronations · Constitutional law · Constitutional history

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