La zvcca del Doni
La zucca del Doni is a 1551 Italian miscellany printed in Venice by Francesco Marcolini and written by Anton Francesco Doni, a collection of witty discourses and anecdotes aimed at a literate readership. Its pictures are small woodcut vignettes: a framed architectural title page with a cartouche and figures, oval medallions of classical nude figures, and an inset historiated initial showing a figure at a window. A designer might take from them the compact oval-medallion framing and the pairing of decorative typography with small figurative woodcuts.
