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Title: Achillis Bocchii Bonon. Symbolicarum quaestionum, de vniuerso genere, quas serio ludebat, libri quinque.
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Alternative Title: Symbolicarvm qvaestionvm de vniuerso genere
Symbolicarum quaestionum de vniuerso genere
Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere
Achillis Bocchii Bonon. symbolicarvm qvaestionvm, de vniuerso genere
Creator: Bocchi, Achille, 1488-1562.
Publisher: Bononiae : Apud Societatem Typographiæ Bononiensis,
Place of Publication: Italy Bologna.
Date: MDLXXIIII [1574].
Physical Description: [48], ccclvii, [3] p. (last [2] p. are blank) : ill. (engravings) ; 21 cm. (4to)
Language: lat
Notes: 151 engraved emblems; copperplates ascribed to Giulio Bonasone, after designs by Prospero Fontana and Parmigianino.
In the Emblems copy, emblems 28, 34, 36, 50, 103, 111, 113 and 145 corrected by pasteovers; emblem 112 mounted on blank page (cf. McGeary & Nash); the Baldwin copy is correct in these places, without pasteovers.
Includes index.
Binding (Emblems copy): Full green morocco, stamped in gilt, signed 'Lortic'; marbled endpapers.
Binding (Baldwin copy): Half leather on paper boards.
References: McGeary & Nash. Emblem books at the University of Illinois, B17.
Landwehr, J. Romanic Emblem Books, 163
Adams, B-2195
Mortimer, R. Italian 16th Cent., 77
Contributor: Bonasone, Giulio, ca. 1498-ca. 1580, illustrator.
Fontana, Prospero, 1512-1597, illustrator.
Rocca, Michele, ca. 1670-ca. 1751, illustrator.
Subject: Symbolism in art
Emblems, Latin
Art, Renaissance