Petri Martyris ab Angleria, Mediolanen. oratoris clarissimi. Fernandi & Helisabeth Hispaniarum quondam regum à consilijs, de rebus oceanicis & orbe nouo decades tres: quibus quicquid de inuentis nuper terris traditum, nouarum rerum cupidum lectorem retinere possit, copiose, fideliter, eruditeq́[ue] docetur. Eivsdem praeterea Legationis babylonicae libri tres ..

Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526, Burndy Library, donor. DSI · 1533 · Basileae, apud Ioannem Bebelium · 6 pictures

This is a 1533 Latin printed account of the Spanish discoveries in the New World, written by the Milanese court humanist Pietro Martire d'Anghiera and published at Basel by Johann Bebel for scholarly readers. The pictures are small woodcut initials and decorative devices: a historiated letter D with putti, a large R framed by a foliate border with figures and animals, a two-faced herm on a pedestal, and a fragment of a map. A designer might take from them the dense, carved line of Renaissance woodcut ornament, with its figures packed into letter shapes and framed by vines.

America -- Early accounts to 1600 · Egypt -- Description and travel

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