Large woodcut initials

Includes poems in Italian or Latin (pp. 1-72, second sequence)

Illustrations: allegorical title page and eleven plates, some of them numbered. Four plates depict decorations designed by the architect Orazio Turriani: the colonnade on the Piazza della Spada in Rome, two plates of a triumphal arch, and a fountain structured as a nymphaea. Seven plates depict temporary structures used for fireworks display, including 2 states of plate numbered "70" or "02". The plates are etched by Luca Ciamberlano after Niccolò Tornioli

L'effimero barocco

Berlin. Ornamentstichsammlung

Binding: contemporary full vellum. Library's copy 1 has green morocco spine label, lettered in gilt, library's copy 2 has title manuscript on spine by old hand

Library's copy 2 is bound without the front fly-leaf

Library's copy 1 does not include the plate depicting a section of the triumphal arch

In library's copy 2 the plate depicting the triumphal arch has the left right corner cut with loss to the signature of Luca Ciamberlano (monogram LC. F.)

Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara, 1444

Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara, 1505

92, [2], 72 p., [11] foldes plates : 22cm. (4to)

92, [2], 72 p., [11] folded plates : 22cm. (4to)

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