La svpplica discorso famigliare di Nicolo Barbieri detto Beltrame diretta à quelli che scrivedo o parlando trattano de comici trascurando i meriti delle azzioni virtuose. Lettura per que galanthuomini che non sono in tuttocritici ne affato balordi
A 1634 Italian treatise printed in Venice by Marco Ginammi, written by the comic actor Niccolò Barbieri (called Beltrame) as a plain-speaking defence of comic performers for general educated readers. Its pictures are small woodcut initials and vignettes with dense hatching, decorative letter frames and a seated scholar, offering a designer ready-made historical ornament in a crude, early-modern print style.
