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Lettera dell'illvstre s. Costanzo Landi, conte di Compiano, sopra vna impresa d'vn pino : con i motti postovi, & con la dechiaratione di tutta la natura del pino

by: Landi, Costanzo, conte, 1521-1564

Publication date: 1560

Topics: Pine, Emblems, Mottoes, Pine -- Early works to 1800, Emblems -- Early works to 1800, Mottoes -- Early works to 1800

Publisher: In Milano : Per Giouann' Antonio de gli Antonii

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: Italian

In the form of a letter to conte Prospero Tedesco. The closing appears on C5r: In Piacenza alli due di Nouembre à hore tre di notte, del M D LVII. It is followed by an addendum (C5v-C8r)

Allegorical woodcut depicting pine-tree(?) on t.p. It is illustrated in Zappella (Marche dei tipografi, V d) as the device of Girolamo and Valerio Meda (Milan 1540-1581), rather than of Giovanni Antonio degli Antoni. Zappella suggests that it may be used here as illustration of the work's subject, rather than as printer's device

Signatures: A-C

Landwehr, J. French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese books of devices and emblems

Binding: modern vellum

In the form of a letter to conte Prospero Tedesco. The closing appears on C5r: In Piacenza alli due di Nouembre à hore tre di notte, del M D LVII. It is followed by an addendum (C5v-C8r)

Allegorical woodcut depicting pine-tree on t.p. It is illustrated in Zappella (Marche dei tipografi, V d) as the device of Girolamo and Valerio Meda (Milan 1540-1581), rather than of Giovanni Antonio degli Antoni. Zappella suggests that it may be used here as illustration of the work's subject, rather than as printer's device

Signatures: A-C⁸

Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara, 1910A

24 leaves ; 16 cm (8vo)