Commentarii della gverra di Transilvania
A 1565 Venetian printed edition of Ascanio Centorio's commentaries on the wars in Transylvania, issued by Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari for a readership of Italian-language historical readers. Its pictures are small woodcut initials and decorative headpieces, with a grotesque mask cartouche, putti-flanked ornament, and a historiated initial showing a rider in combat, offering designers compact models for ornamental letterforms and framed title devices.

































