L'Asia
L'Asia is a 1561 Italian history of Portuguese voyages and conquest in Asia by João de Barros, printed in Venice by Vincenzo Valgrisio for readers of the Italian edition. Its four pictures are small woodcut historiated initials framed in black, with figures in landscapes, a man with a sword over a fallen body, and a serpent-entwined staff held by two hands on a cloud, offering a designer compact narrative vignettes and framed letter-based decoration.
