Le vulgari elegantie
Le vulgari elegantie is a 1521 Italian grammar and guide to vernacular usage by Nicolò Liburnio, printed in Venice at the press of Aldo Romano and Andrea Asolano. The three pictures are small printer's devices: a crowned lion-and-wreath emblem with a pelican and owl, a griffin beneath a GAUDEO banner, and the anchor-and-dolphin device with the motto ALDUS. A designer could take from them the compact, emblem-based mark-making of Renaissance printers' colophons, suited to monograms, seals and bookplates.
