Discorsi del signor Scipione Ammirato sopra Cornelio Tacito
This 1607 Italian commentary by Scipione Ammirato on the Roman historian Tacitus was printed in Venice by M. Valentini for scholarly readers. The pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, ornamented with interlaced foliage, scrolls, birds and grotesque masks, which a designer could adapt for monograms, drop caps or border ornament.
