Dialogo dell'imprese militari et amorose di monsignor Giovio, vescouo di Nocera : con vn ragionamento di messer Lodouico Domenichi nel medesimo soggetto ; con la tavola
The first illustrated ed. of Giovio's Dialogo; see Praz. The oval emblematic ill. are set in a series of grotesque or strapwork ornamental rectangular borders. Printer's device on t.p. Port. of author on t.p. verso. Initials. Headpieces Praz, M. Studies in seventeenth-cent. imagery With: Le imprese heroiche et morali / Gabriello Symeoni (Lyons : G. Rovillio, 1559) Binding: limp vellum. Cursive title in brown ink written upwards on spine: Imprese Militarj et Amorose de l' Giovio. Sites of two pairs of ties at foredge Signature at foot of t.p. in black ink: Vincentio Aulla. Both the emblems in this title and those in Simeoni's Imprese with which it is bound have been annotated with Simeoni's explanatory quatrains in Italian verse; cf. e.g. his Sentenziose imprese di monsignor Paulo Giovio et del signor Gabriel Symeoni (Lyons : Roviglio, 1561). The hand is similar to that of Aulla's signature on the t.p
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