Ragionamento di mons. Paolo Giovio sopra i motti, & disegni d'arme, & d'amore, che communemente chiamano imprese
By: con vn Discorso di Girolamo Ruscelli
Contributors: Domenichi, Lodovico, 1515-1564; Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565
Publisher: Appresso Giordano Ziletti
Published: 1556
Place of publication: In Venetia
Language: ita
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Emblems; Early works to 1800; Devices (Heraldry); Mottoes
Other titles: Dialogo dell'imprese.
Work titles: Dialogo dell'imprese militari et amorose
Notes: The Ragionamento is a dialogue between Paolo Giovio and Lodovico Domenichi.

Originally published in Rome in 1555 as Dialogo dell'imprese militari et amorose.  Two Venice editions published in 1556, the other one edited by Domenichi and with additional material by him.  Cf. Kelso no. 411.

Includes title-vignette (printer's device).

Kelso, R.  English gentleman, 411 note

Praz, M.  Studies in 17th cent. imagery (2nd ed.), p. 352

Landwehr, J.  French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese books of devices and emblems, 332