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Orazione fvnerale di Benedetto Betti : da lui publicamente recitata nelle esequie del sereniss. Cosimo Medici gran duca di Toscana : celebrate il dì 13. de giugnio 1574. nella Compagnia di S. Giouanni Vangelista : con la descrizione dell'apparato messa nel fine

Betti, Benedetto, Padovani, Antonio, 16th cent · 1574 · In Fiorenza : Apresso i Giunti · 6 pictures

A 1574 Florentine funeral oration by Benedetto Betti, printed in Florence by the Giunti press, delivered for Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici of Tuscany and including a description of the funeral decorations. The pictures are small woodcut initial letters, one with a horse and rider, one with a gilded horse and a figure with a hat, and a coat of arms flanked by two standing allegorical women. Designers can take from them the compact, figurative style of Renaissance woodcut initials and the way a letter frame can hold a scene.

Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574 · Funeral rites and ceremonies · Funeral decorations

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