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Letter written in the testeggiata style of italic bastarda script by Gianfrancesco Cresci, 1572; in the Vatican Library, Vatican City (MS Vat. Lat. 1685, fol. 135r).

Italic bastarda

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Gianfrancesco Cresci: Media

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Letter written in the testeggiata style of italic bastarda script by Gianfrancesco Cresci, 1572; in the Vatican Library, Vatican City (MS Vat. Lat. 1685, fol. 135r).

Letter written in the testeggiata style of italic bastarda script...

Courtesy of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Italic bastarda

Italic bastarda

Italic bastarda, from a letter by Gianfrancesco Cresci, 1572; in the Biblioteca...

Courtesy of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana