L'arte de' cenni : con la quale formandosi fauella visibile, si tratta della muta eloquenza, che non e' altro che vn facondo silentio : diuisa in due parti ...
A 1616 Italian treatise on gesture and nonverbal communication by Giovanni Bonifacio, printed in Vicenza by Francesco Grossi for scholars and readers interested in rhetoric and silent eloquence. Its four small woodcut headpieces repeat one symmetrical emblem: a bearded face framed by a vase-like urn, flanked by two standing male figures with stylised scrolls, rendered in dense black and white line hatching a designer could borrow for ornamental borders.