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Pomponivs Laetus De Romanae vrbis uetustate nouiter impraessus / ac per Marianum de Blanchellis praenestinum emendatus

Leto, Giulio Pomponio, 1428-1497, Blanchellis, Marinanus de · 1510 · Impraessum Romae : Per Iacobum Mazochiũ · 2 pictures

A 1510 Roman antiquarian treatise by Giulio Pomponio Leto, edited by Marianus de Blanchellis and printed in Rome by Jacobus Mazochius, describing the antiquities of ancient Rome for scholars and readers of Latin. The first picture is a printer's device of a cross with a letter M in a framed woodcut, and the second is a title page inside an elaborate woodcut architectural arch with a carved mask and printed capitals, a model for classical frontispiece layout and ornamental framing.

Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities, Roman -- Early works to 1800 · Rome (Italy -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Early works to 1800

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