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Name in use since the fifteenth century (from the Latin stilus). Also style.


Description

Dry-point pen (not writing pen) for tracing "occult", that is, incised, lines on paper.


Bibliographical Resources

Scamozzi, Vincenzo, L’idea della architettura universale, Venezia, 1615, Parte I, Lib. I, Cap. XV, p. 49: “per tirar le linee occulte, ò morte con la puntina del stilo d’avorio”.



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Author of the entry: Filippo Camerota

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