Dialogo dell'imprese militari et amorose
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).