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(WRITING MANUAL.) Palatino, Giovanni Battista. Compendio del Gran Volume dell'Arte del bene, & leggiadramente Scivere Tutte le Sorti di Lettere e Caratteri. [62] leaves, including final leaf with printer's device. 8vo, 201x144 mm, modern vellum; occasional light marginal soiling, a few figures in the Sonetto Figurato unobtrusively hand-colored, title and last leaf rehinged, with minor marginal repairs. Venice: (Gio. Antonio Rampazetto for) Alvise Sessa, 1588
Later edition, retitled, of Palatino's 1540 Libro Nuovo, "the last of the three major Italian copy-books of the sixteenth century . . . In extent, Palatino's manual was a more ambitious effort than Arrighi's or Tagliente's . . . Palatino's models of chancery script are among the handsomest, but are nearly impossible to execute if the writer is a person of modest ability"--2000 Years of Calligraphy 65 (original edition). Bonacini 1343 (this edition).
