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Book ID: 558
| Title | Breue Raguaglio dell'inuentione, e Feste de' gloriosi Martirj Placido e compagni mandato al Seren.mo Don Filippo d'Austria Principe di Spagna | |||||
| Authors | Gotho, Filippo | |||||
| Year of event | 1591 | |||||
| Event description | Veneration of Placido the Martyr and companions ordered by Felipe III, King of Spain (1578-1621) | |||||
| Event type | Religious Festivities | |||||
| Event place | Messina | |||||
| Publication info | Messina: Stampato per Fausto Bufalini; 1591; 4° | |||||
| Pages | xviii + 184pp (last page not numbered) | |||||
| Illustrations | 28 engravings, of which the two depicting arches are signed by Rinaldo Bonani | |||||
| Festival type | Religious festivities | |||||
| Rulers | Felipe III, King of Spain; Placido the Martyr | |||||
| Artists | Bonani, Rinaldo | |||||
| Shelfmark | BL 1125.k.17.; BNF 4- H- 6933 (1); BNF 8- RA5- 548; BNF 8- RA5- 549; BNF K- 2616; V&A 87.C.42 | |||||
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| Notes | Placido was a sixth-century saint; bones thought to be his had been rediscovered in a church in Messina in 1588. Copy at BNF 8-RA5-548 is missing pp.141-152. | |||||