Memorie
Memorie is a 1648 Venetian printed book by Guido Bentivoglio (1577-1644), issued by the Giunti and Baba press, with memoirs written for a general readership of educated readers. Its pictures are decorative woodcut initials: one is a large open capital D framed by scrolling acanthus foliage, the other a smaller historiated D enclosing a figure, both set beside dense italic type, offering a designer examples of early modern letterform framing and ornament.
