I dilettevoli : sermoni, altrimenti satire, e le morali epistole di Horatio, illustre poeta lirico, insieme con la poetica
This is a 1559 Italian translation of Horace's satires and epistles, printed in Venice by Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari and translated by Lodovico Dolce for a general literate readership. The four pictures are historiated woodcut initials, each a letter (P, E, I, F) filled with grotesque masks, scrollwork, and small figures, offering a designer models for decorative capitals and framed display letters.
