Della gverra di Fiandra
Della gverra di Fiandra is a 1637 Venetian printed history of the Flemish war by Guido Bentivoglio, published by Francesco Baba in Venice for a readership of educated Italian readers. Its pictures are woodcut decorated initial letters, a D with a small nude figure and a woman's face among dense scrolling acanthus leaves, and an R with a lion head and wing in the upper bowl. A designer could take from them the interlaced foliate framing and the way a single letter can hold a figure.
