Delle lettere di m. Pietro Bembo ... primo[-secondo] volvme
This is a 1560 Venetian edition of Pietro Bembo's letters, published in Venice by Francesco Sansovino and company for a literate Italian readership. Its pictures are decorative woodcut initials, each letter set in a framed square filled with hatching, foliage, figures, landscapes and small animals, which a designer could borrow for ornamental capitals, drop caps or pattern work.
![Picture 1 of 9 from Delle lettere di m. Pietro Bembo ... primo[-secondo] volvme (1560), leaf 7](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-delleletteredimp01bemb-7-0.webp)
![Picture 2 of 9 from Delle lettere di m. Pietro Bembo ... primo[-secondo] volvme (1560), leaf 9](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-delleletteredimp01bemb-9-0.webp)
![Picture 3 of 9 from Delle lettere di m. Pietro Bembo ... primo[-secondo] volvme (1560), leaf 83](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-delleletteredimp01bemb-83-0.webp)
![Picture 4 of 9 from Delle lettere di m. Pietro Bembo ... primo[-secondo] volvme (1560), leaf 143](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-delleletteredimp01bemb-143-0.webp)
![Picture 5 of 9 from Delle lettere di m. Pietro Bembo ... primo[-secondo] volvme (1560), leaf 166](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-delleletteredimp01bemb-166-0.webp)
![Picture 6 of 9 from Delle lettere di m. Pietro Bembo ... primo[-secondo] volvme (1560), leaf 213](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-delleletteredimp01bemb-213-0.webp)
![Picture 7 of 9 from Delle lettere di m. Pietro Bembo ... primo[-secondo] volvme (1560), leaf 230](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-delleletteredimp01bemb-230-0.webp)
![Picture 8 of 9 from Delle lettere di m. Pietro Bembo ... primo[-secondo] volvme (1560), leaf 253](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-delleletteredimp01bemb-253-0.webp)
![Picture 9 of 9 from Delle lettere di m. Pietro Bembo ... primo[-secondo] volvme (1560), leaf 268](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-delleletteredimp01bemb-268-0.webp)