Ioannis Padovanii Veronensis De singularum humani corporis partium significationibus ex varijs antiquorum sapientum voluminibus excerptis, atque in peculiares tabulas summatim pro qualibet parte digestis; opus ad dignoscendos hominum mores, & qualitates, valde utile & necessarium. Authorum nomina, ex quibus significationes ipsae excerptae sunt, versa pagina indicabit
A 1589 Latin treatise by Giovanni Padovani of Verona, printed at Verona by Hieronymus Discipulus, for physiognomists and readers seeking to judge character from the parts of the human body. The pictures are small woodcut initials and decorative headpieces: one framed letter V with a rearing animal and a carved cartouche border, and an oval frame with cherubs, grotesque masks and a scene of figures in a landscape. A designer might borrow the strapwork cartouches, grotesque masks and the framed initial layout as period ornament.
