Elpidii Berrettarii ... Tractatus de risu
A 1603 Latin treatise on laughter by Elpidio Berrettari, printed in Florence by Cosmo Giunta for scholarly readers. Its pictures are small woodcut printer's ornaments: a fleur-de-lis flanked by putti in a cartouche, historiated initials with a winged female figure and a grotesque, and an oval frame holding a half-length figure, all set in dense scrolling borders a designer could adapt for decorative framing.
