Della caccia. Poema
A late sixteenth-century Italian verse poem on hunting by Erasmo da Valvasone, printed in Bergamo in 1591 and addressed to a young noble reader. Its pictures are woodcut decorative initials and border ornaments, with grotesque masks, scrolling foliage, and winged griffins, which a designer could draw on for mannerist strapwork and ornamental letterforms.
