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<dl><dd>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</dd>
<dd>Praz, M. Studies in seventeenth-cent. imagery</dd>
<dd>With: Le imprese heroiche et morali / Gabriello Symeoni (Lyons : G. Rovillio, 1559)</dd>
<dd>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</dd>
<dd>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</dd>
<dd>194, [9] pages : 22 cm</dd>
<dd>Printer's device on t.p</dd>
<dd>Portrait of author on t.p. verso</dd>
<dd>Initials</dd>
<dd>Head pieces</dd>
<dd>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 title page verso. Initials. Headpieces</dd>
<dd>"Ragionamento di M. Lodovico Domenichi. Nel qvale si parla d'imprese d'armi, e d'amore": pages 147-194</dd>
<dd>In portfolio</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Emblems; Devices (Heraldry); Mottoes; Emblems -- Early works to 1800; Mottoes -- Early works to 1800; Devices (Heraldry) -- Early works to 1800</div>
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Giovio, Paolo, 1483-1552</div>
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