Della ragion di Stato libri dieci : con tre libri Delle cause della grandezza, e magnificenza delle città
Della ragion di Stato is a 1589 Italian political treatise by Giovanni Botero, printed in Venice by the Giolito press for a scholarly readership interested in statecraft and urban growth. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each a large decorated letter framed by grotesque ornament, figures, and scrollwork, which offer a designer dense Renaissance border and letterform models to adapt.
