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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).

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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...

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