De somno et vigilia
A 1556 Latin medical treatise on sleep and waking by the physician Giovanni Argenterio, printed in Florence by Laurentius Torrentinus for physicians and scholars of the period. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials and a classical architectural title page framed by figures and an armorial cartouche, offering a designer ideas for decorative capitals, framed letterforms and Renaissance title-page layout.
