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In what year was Ripa's Iconologia first published?
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- The last decade of the sixteenth century.
- 1593, with an illustrated edition following about a decade later.
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1593 (answers within ±3 count)
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1593, unillustrated, with the illustrated edition following about a decade later. The illustrations mattered enormously for its use: a painter needs to see how Fortune stands, not only to read that she does.
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