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Simolachri, historie, e figure de la morte. La medicina de l'anima [di Urbanus Rhegius] Il modo, e la via di consolar gl'infermi. Un sermone di San Cipriano, de la mortalità. Due orationi, l'una à Dio, e l'altra à Christo. Un sermone di D. Giovan Chrisostomo, che ci essorta à patienza. Aiuntovi de novo molte figure mai più stampate

John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407, Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage, Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543, Lützberger, Hans, d. 1526, Rhegius, Urbanus, 1489-1541. Medicina de l'anima, Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677 · 1549 · Lyone, Giovan Frellone · 90 pictures

This is not allowed, so instead: An Italian edition printed at Lyon in 1549 by Giovan Frellone, a collection of Holbein's Dance of Death woodcuts paired with devotional texts by Saint Cyprian, Saint John Chrysostom and Urbanus Rhegius, made for Italian-speaking readers. The woodcuts show skeletons confronting the living in pared-down outline, which a designer could take as a model for stark, narrative figure work built from hatched line.

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