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Historia della augustissima famiglia Colonna, dove si contiene l'antica sua origine, descendenza, e progressi, vite de santi, de papi, cardinali, e capitani più illustri di essa, laconicamente

Mugnos, Filadelfo, 1607-1675, Agostino, Ottavio, 1615-1682, Niger, Fran., 17th cent, Tantillus, Honuphrius, 17th cent, Turrini, Giovanni Maria, 17th cent · 1658 · In Venetia, Nella stamperia del Turrini · 63 pictures

A 1658 Venetian genealogical history of the Colonna family, written by Filadelfo Mugnos and others and printed by the Turrini press in Venice, tracing the family's origins and its popes, cardinals and captains. The four pictures are small oval portrait busts of family members, each set in a decorative cartouche frame with a Latin or Italian caption beneath, offering designers a compact model for framed portrait medallions, scrolled ornament and engraved caption lettering.

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