Dialogo della giostra fatta in Trivigi l'anno MDXCVII
A 1598 Italian dialogue on a jousting tournament held at Treviso, printed there by Evangelista Deuchino and written by Giovanni dalla Torre for an educated readership interested in chivalric display. The pictures are small woodcut decorative initials, each a letter inside a framed border of scrolls, foliage and grotesque figures, showing how sixteenth-century printers built ornate letter frames a designer could adapt for display type or monogram work.
