La retorica
La retorica is a 1559 rhetoric treatise by Bartolomeo Cavalcanti, printed in Pesaro by Bartolomeo Cesano, aimed at Renaissance students and speakers of oratory. Its pictures are woodcut headpieces and an ornate initial, with the first three showing a central grotesque mask flanked by scrolling strapwork, and the last showing a historiated letter with men in boats, useful for designers seeking dense Renaissance ornament and framing devices.
