Dell'istoria di Ferrara
Dell'istoria di Ferrara is a history of the city of Ferrara by Girolamo Baruffaldi, printed in Ferrara in 1700 by Bernardino Pomatelli for readers of Italian local history. Its pictures are small woodcut decorative initials, each a large letter framed by stylised foliage, flowers and scrolling leaves, in dense black-and-white line work. A designer could take from them a model for ornamental capitals and border-framed letterforms drawn from early Italian printing.
