Dialogo dell'imprese militari et amorose

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 Praz, M. Studies in seventeenth-cent. imagery With: Le imprese heroiche et morali / Gabriello Symeoni (Lyons : G. Rovillio, 1559) 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 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 194, [9] pages : 22 cm Printer's device on t.p Portrait of author on t.p. verso Initials Head pieces 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 "Ragionamento di M. Lodovico Domenichi. Nel qvale si parla d'imprese d'armi, e d'amore": pages 147-194 In portfolio