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Marcello Donati's 1586 medical treatise, printed at Mantua by Francesco Osanna, is a scholarly Latin work on clinical cases written for physicians and students. Its pictures are decorative woodcut initials, large letters I and F wrapped in acanthus-like foliage, scrolls and leaf tendrils, useful to a designer for historical ornament and letterform framing.
