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<dd>Colophon: In Jiorenza [sic] appresso i Giunti. 1566</dd>
<dd>Another ed. on 4to with 119 p. was issued by Giunti in the same year (cf. Adams and Alden)</dd>
<dd>Signatures: A-K [$4 signed; missigning F3 as F2, H2 as I2]; 80 leaves; pp. [16] 1-128 [16]; misprinting 38 as 39, 39 as 38, 70 as 71, 71 as 70, 86 as 87, 87 as 86)</dd>
<dd>Woodcuts: armorial title vignette (Medici coat of arms), printer's device on p.11] 3rd count, historiated and floriated initials, small tail-pieces</dd>
<dd>Mellini's text describes the ephemeral architecture, including numerous emblems. It includes a mention of Vespucci (cf. p. 13) and accounts of maritime discoveries, including Peru (cf. p. 44). Mellini lists, in detail, all the artists involved with the project. 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>Bound with: Descrizione del canto de sogni ... In Fiorenza : Appresso i Giunti, MDLXVI (SPECIAL 84-B32715-2) -- Descrizione dell'apparato della comedia et intermedii d'essa ... In Fiorenza : Appresso i Giunti, MDLXVI (SPECIAL 84-B26843-2) -- Le dieci mascherate delle bvfole mandate in Firenze il giorno di carnouale l'anno 1565 ... In Fiorenza : Apresso i Giunti MDLXVI (SPECIAL 84-B32718-2) -- Orazione o vero libro di M. Piero Vettori ... In Firenze L Apresso i Giunti, 1566 (SPECIAL 94-B5549)</dd>
<dd>Binding: recent half calf, marbled boards, gilt title on spine. Manuscript notes in Latin, written in ink by old land on front fly-leaf and t.p. Manuscript notes on front fly leaf and t.p., in ink by old hand</dd>
<dd>Binding: 19th century half-bound calf, with vellum corner, marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt</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></dl><br>Subjects: Francesco I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1541-1587; Giovanna, d'Austria, Grand-Duchess, consort of Francesco I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1547-1578; 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; Festivals; Weddings; Emblems</div>
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Mellini, Domenico, ca. 1540-ca. 1610</div>
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