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<dl><dd>Woodcuts: printer's device on t.p. and last page, historiated initials</dd>
<dd>Imprint on colophon (Q5): In Fiorenza appresso gli heredi di Bernardo Giunti 1566</dd>
<dd>Errata on p.[120]</dd>
<dd>Signatures: A B-P P [$2 (-A1, +A3, +Q3) signed]; 68 leaves; pp. [2] [I] II-XI [1] 1-119 [5]; misprinting 50 as 44, 51 as 41, 54 as 48, 55 as 45, 61 as 62, 71 as 61, 115 as II)</dd>
<dd>Another ed. in 8vo with 128 p. was issued by Giunti in the same year (cf. Adams and Alden)</dd>
<dd>Mellini's text describes the ephemeral architecture, including numerous emblems. It includes a mention of Vespucci (cf. p. 11-12) and accounts of maritime discoveries, including Peru (cf. p. 38). Mellini lists, in detail, all the artists involved with the project (pp. 113-119). Vincenzo Borghini is mentioned as the architect of the ephemeral structures. Among the other artists named are Alessandro Allori, Agnolo Bronzino, Giovanni Battista Adriani, Giovanni Francesco Cresci, Giovanni Maria Butteri, Zanobi Lastricati, Giovan Francesco De Servi, Francesco della Camilla, Bartolomeo Ammannati, Domenico Poggini, Vincenzo de Rossi, and Federigo Lamberto Fiammingo (i.e. Lambert Sustris)</dd>
<dd>Scorza, R. A. "Vincenzo Borghini and invenzione: the Florentine apparato of 1565," Journal of the Warburg and Courthauld Institutes</dd>
<dd>Adams</dd>
<dd>American references</dd>
<dd>Alden, J.E. European Americana</dd>
<dd>Binding: old full pig skin, gilt spine with green morocco label. 19th cent. woodcut emblematic bookplate, with the number "52" pencilled in, pasted inside the front cover</dd>
<dd>Photocopy available</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Borghini, Vincenzo, 1515-1580; Allori, Alessandro, 1535-1607; Bronzino, Agnolo, 1503-1572; Cresci, Giovanni Francesco, fl. 1560-1570; Butteri, Giovanni Maria, ca. 1540-1606; Lastricati, Zanobi, 1508-1590; Ammannati, Bartolomeo, 1511-1592; Poggini, Domenico, 1520-1590; Rossi, Vincenzo de, 1525-1587; Sustris, Lambert, ca. 1515-ca. 1568; Francesco I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1541-1587; Giovanna, d'Austria, Grand-Duchess, consort of Francesco I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1547-1578; Festivals; Weddings; Emblems</div>
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Mellini, Domenico, ca. 1540-ca. 1610</div>
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