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Vita del servo di Dio D. Torivio Alfonso Mogrovejo

Lapi, Michael Angelo · 1656 · In Roma, : Per Nicolangelo Tinassi. · 21 pictures

A 1656 Italian devotional biography printed in Rome by Nicolangelo Tinassi, recounting the life of the servant of God Torivio Alfonso Mogrovejo for a Catholic readership. The pictures are small woodcut historiated initials and decorative capitals, framed in square blocks of acanthus scrolls, fruit garlands, cherubs and ribbon ornament, which a designer could adapt for monograms, frames or ornamental letter drop caps.

Imprint 1656

Internet Archive · John Carter Brown Library · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library