Del significato de colori e de mazzolli : operetta
A 1545 Italian treatise on the symbolism of colours and flower bunches, printed in Ferrara by Giovanmaria di Michieli and Antonio Maria de Siuieri for a general reading public. The pictures are woodcut decorative initial letters framed in rectangles, with foliage, grotesque animals, a lion head, a mythical bird and a flowering vase; a designer could draw on their tight framing and mixed botanical and beast motifs for capital letters.
