Emblemi di Andrea Alciato, huomo chiarissimo, dal latino nel vulgare italiano ridotti :
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Description

Main Author

Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550.

Related Names

Cadamosto, Paolo Emilio.

Language(s)

Italian ; Latin

Published

In Padoua : Per P.P. Tozzi, 1626.

Subjects

Emblems > Emblems / Early works to 1800.
Woodcuts > Woodcuts / Italy > Woodcuts / Italy / 17th century.
Emblem books > Emblem books / Italy > Emblem books / Italy / 17th century.
Emblems (allegorical pictures) > Emblems (allegorical pictures) / Italy > Emblems (allegorical pictures) / Italy / 17th century.

Note

Includes index.
Signatures: +⁴ A-X⁸ Y⁴.
Cuts on p. 45 & 71 printed upside down, that on p. 266 printed sideways.
Printer's device on t.p. (IHS). Pages have line borders, the 212 emblems separated by rules. Head- and tail-pieces, initials.
Latin mottoes precede the 212 woodcut emblematic ill., Latin texts and Italian translations follow. Ill. are copied from Plantin eds. and appeared previously in Tozzi's Latin eds. of 1618 and 1621; see Landwehr. Some ill. bear the letter A.
Edited by Paolo Emilio Cadamosto; see +3r.

Physical Description

[4], 343, [1] p. (the last blank) : ill. ; 17 cm. (8vo)

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