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Maphaei s.r.e. card. Barberini nvnc Vrbani pp. VIII. Poemata

Urban VIII, Pope, 1568-1644, Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680, Della Bella, Stefano, 1610-1664, Greuter, Johann Friedrich, 1590-1662 · 1638 · [In Roma : Nella Stamperia della Reuerenda Camera Apostolica] · 13 pictures

A 1638 Roman collection of Latin poems by Pope Urban VIII, formerly Cardinal Maffeo Barberini, printed at the Apostolic Camera press and issued for a learned and clerical readership. Its pictures are small engraved emblems and ornamental vignettes, including a haloed putto face in rays, a bee among scrolls and garlands, and a bearded mask with a laurel wreath, offering a designer compact Baroque motifs of bees, laurel, rays and cornucopia for borders and seals.

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