Della theriaca, libri due ... a Pansiliano, e a Pisone
A 1608 Italian printed treatise by the Greek physician Galen, issued by G.P. Gioannini in Vicenza and aimed at physicians and readers of medical theory. The four pictures are woodcut decorative initials and a headpiece, with foliate scrollwork, grotesque masks and a face framed by leaves, showing how Renaissance printers built ornament from vine tendrils and acanthus-like curls that a designer could adapt for lettering frames, borders or capitals.
