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L'Horatia

Aretino, Pietro, 1492-1556 · 1549 · In Vinegia : Appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari · 4 pictures

L'Horatia is a 1549 Italian printed book by Pietro Aretino, published in Venice by Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari for a general reading public of the period. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials and a printer's device, with figures set inside decorative letter frames, which a designer might take as models for compact framed initial letters and emblematic printer's marks.

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