I tre libri di Messer Giovan Battista Svsio della ingivstitia del dvello : et di coloro, che lo permettono : all'invittiss et Christianissimo Henrico Secondo Re di Francia
A 1558 Venetian treatise by Giovanni Battista Susio, printed by Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari in Venice and dedicated to Henry II of France, arguing against dueling. The four pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, E, H, H and M, framed in ornate borders with grotesque masks, putti and interlaced figures. A designer could take from them the dense, carved black-and-white frame work of Renaissance Italian printing, with figures tucked into letter forms.
