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Le bravvre del Capitano Spauento : divise in molti ragionamenti in forma di dialogo

Andreini, Francesco, approximately 1548-1624, Tummerman, Abraham, 17th cent · 1607 · In Venetia : Appresso Giacomo Somasco · 38 pictures

A 1607 Venetian Italian book of commedia dell'arte dialogues by Francesco Andreini, a printed text whose pages open with large decorative historiated initials. The four pictures are woodcut initial letters framed in foliage, showing a face with plumed headdress, a griffin-like beast, and an urn, which a designer could use for ornamental capitals and border-framed letterforms.

Commedia dell'arte

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