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I torti amorosi : comedia

Castelletti, Cristoforo · 1581 · In Venetia : Appresso Gio. Battista Sessa & fratelli · 5 pictures

A late sixteenth-century Italian comedy in print, published in Venice in 1581 by Sessa and sons and written by Cristoforo Castelletti for a reading audience. Its pages show Italian roman typefaces with large ornamental initial letters set into decorative woodcut frames, a model for historic display type and initials.

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