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Tesoro politico in cvi si contengono relationi : istruttioni, trattati, & varij discorsi, pertinenti alla perfetta intelligenza della ragion di stato. Et all'intiera cognitione de gl'interessi, & dipendenze de' più gran prencipi, & signori del mondo. Diviso in tre parti

Ventura, Comino, d. 1617 · 1602 · Vicenza : Giorgio Greco · 34 pictures

A 1602 Italian political treatise printed in Vicenza by Giorgio Greco, written by Comino Ventura for readers of statecraft and reason of state. Its pictures are historiated woodcut initials, decorated letters L, I and P with strapwork, leafy scrolls and interlaced foliage, which a designer could take as models for ornamental capitals and border-filled letterforms.

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