Ancient miniatures representing jousts from the Vatican Library.


Ancient miniatures representing jousts from the Vatican Library. The bottom scene from a French manuscript, Universal Stories Sacred and Profane, 1290, resembles Ariosto's tale of Ullania and the tyrant Marganorre. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico after A. Monticelli from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1844.


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