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The etched emblems appear within elaborate borders of strapwork, architectural elements, figures, masks, swags, fruit, etc. They include Latin mottos. Dolce's explanatory verses appear on the leaf following each emblem. These are printed letterpress, within one of two woodcut borders, and are numbered 1-52 at the upper right (mistakes, omissions). Plates [38] and [45] each contain two emblems. ; Place of publication taken from Venetian privilege on t.p. Date from that of dedication to Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara (6 ottobre 1562). ; Landwehr, J. French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese emblem books, ; Mode of access: Internet. ; At foot of many of Dolce's verses is a reference in brown ink to Paolo Giovio's Dialogo dell'imprese militari et amorose. ; Binding: later vellum. Author and brief title in gilt on red leather spine label. Page edges sprinkled red. Green silk place marker. ; Library's copy lacks dedicatory leaf ([2]).

Illuminated patent of nobility issued to Diego Belarde de Aguilar on his own account and on behalf of his brother Juan, reciting the patent granted by Charles V and the services of their father Captain Rodrigo Belarde de Aguilar. The patent includes a finely-illuminated miniature of the Virgin within a red and blue decorative border (leaf 1r) and a full-page illuminated coat of arms (leaf 7v). There are also illuminated hands and gilt borders throughout, as well as notarial seals and later dockets (leaves 24-26, dated 1607).

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