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La sfera di messer Giouanni Sacrobosco

Danti, Pier Vincenzo, -1512 · 1579 · In Firenze : Nella stamperia de'Giunti. · 35 pictures

La sfera di messer Giouanni Sacrobosco is a 1579 Italian cosmography text printed in Florence by the Giunti press, a scholarly treatise on the celestial sphere written for students and readers of astronomy. Its pages carry large woodcut historiated initials, each framing a small scene of figures, animals or landscape, with dense black-letter-style Italian type beside them.

Cosmography

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