Musica nova di Adriano Willaert all'illustrissimo et eccellentissimo signor il signor donno Alfonso d'Este prencipe di Ferrara. Sexta pars.
A 1559 Venetian printed book of polyphonic music by Adriaan Willaert, published by Antonio Gardano and dedicated to Alfonso d'Este, Prince of Ferrara. Its pages are dense black-letter music notation with Italian and Latin text set in staves, with a few decorated historiated initials and a seal-like stamp that is not part of the design. A designer might take the rhythmic, evenly spaced staff layouts and the ornamental initial letters as models for old-fashioned typographic structure.
