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Pezzi, Lorenzo, 16th cent, Pezzi, Lorenzo, 16th cent. Dialogus de sacramentis, Porro, Girolamo, 1520-1604 · 1588 · Venetiis : Apud Hier. Porrum · 23 pictures

A 1588 Venetian devotional book by Lorenzo Pezzi, printed by Girolamo Porro, explaining the Catholic sacraments and the afterlife for lay Christian readers. Its engravings are small framed scenes with Latin captions, such as marriage, Eucharist and baptism, each set in a ruled border with a clear figure group, and a full-page diagram of a walled city ringed by flames that a designer could adapt for layered, schematic compositions.

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