Propugnacolo fortissimo per reprimere e rintucciare il fiero orgoglio, e la crudel tirannide di qual si voglia peste, ò contagio che si sia
A 1626 Italian plague treatise printed in Trieste by A. Turrini and written by Giovanni Francesco Arquati, a writer active 1608 to 1626, presented as a fortified defence against contagion for a general readership. The three pictures are a historiated initial I with foliage and a grotesque face, a second decorated initial with scrolling leaves, and a printer's device of a tower inside a ring flanked by putti, all in crisp woodcut line with a designer-friendly mix of ornament and emblem.
