The Florentine historie.
The Florentine historie is a 1595 London history book by Niccolò Machiavelli, translated by Thomas Bedingfield and printed by T.C. for W.P., with its decorative pictures being the printer's woodcut ornaments and initial letters of the period. The pictures are black-and-white woodcut headers, a large initial letter and a strip of foliate ornament, built from scrolling acanthus, leafy tendrils and hatched shading that a designer could borrow for Renaissance-style borders, drop caps and bookplates.
