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Diverse imprese accommodate a diuerse moralità : con versi che i loro significati dichiarano insieme con molte altre nella lingua italiana non piu tradotte

by: Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550; Marquale, Giovanni, 16th cent; Eskrich, Pierre, ca. 1530-ca. 1590

Publication date: 1564

Topics: Emblems

Publisher: In Lione : Appresso Gvlielmo Rovillio

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: Italian

Re-edition of the 2nd Italian ed., published Lyon : Mathias Bonhomme, 1551. See Landwehr

The 180 woodcut emblems are by Pierre Eskrich, in the style of Bernard Salomon. Many of the four-block borders with grotesque, strap-work or architectural elements are signed PV, probably for Pierre Vase, i.e. Eskrich. The ill. on p. 131 is a map of central Italy. The 11 emblems at the end comprising the section entitled "Arbori" (p. 181-191) make use of ill. from Leonhard Fuchs' De historia stirpium (1549). For all the preceding, see R. Mortimer, French 16th-cent., 15

Dedication to Francesco Donato, prince of Venice, by Giovanni Marquale, the translator

Landwehr, J. French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese emblem books

Cut on p. 159 printed upside down

Binding: modern decorated paper (red and green), quarter tan goatskin. Title in gilt on black spine label: EMBLEMI

At foot of t.p. is signature in brown ink, the forename written over another, earlier, forename: Abb. Giuseppe ?Gavigliani

Notes

No table of contents. Irregular pagination. Pages bound out of order. Narrow margins. Gutter included to avoid cropping text. Some text impossible to capture. Foxing.