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Historia della vita, et fatti dell' eccellentissimo capitano di gverra Bartolomeo Coglione

Spino, Pietro, 1513-1585 · 1569 · [In Vinetia, Appresso Gratioso Percaccino] · 40 pictures

A 1569 Venetian biography of the condottiero Bartolomeo Colleoni, written by Pietro Spino and printed in Venice by Gratioso Percaccino for readers interested in Renaissance military history. Its pictures are decorative woodcut headpieces, each a horizontal strip of scrolling ornament framing a faces-in-medallions motif and a small central scene of figures and water, useful for designers seeking Renaissance border and cartouche patterns.

Colleoni, Bartolomeo, 1400-1475

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