La zvcca del Doni
A 1551 Venetian printed book by Anton Francesco Doni, published by Francesco Marcolini in Venice, with woodcut illustrations for a general readership of Italian literary readers. The pictures are small black-and-white woodcuts: one shows three laurel-crowned figures seated beneath a tree with a star-marked globe on a stand, and others show bearded men in robes gathered in interiors, with a kneeling petitioner, a sacrificial altar with smoke, and a bird-headed or winged figure, giving a designer examples of compact, narrative Renaissance woodcut composition with clear figure grouping and sparse hatching.
