Delle machine, ordinanze, et qvartieri antichi, et moderni : come quelli da questi possino essere imitati senza punto alterate la soldatesca dei nostri tempi : discorsi
Delle machine, ordinanze, et qvartieri antichi, et moderni is a 1601 Italian treatise on military art and ordnance, printed in Venice by Giovanni Battista Ciotti for a readership of soldiers and military engineers. Its pictures are small woodcut decorative initials, the large capital letters opening sections, built from interlaced vines, leaves, and grotesque foliage, with some framed in rectangular borders, which a designer could draw on for ornamental letterforms.
