Memorie del Cardinale Bentivoglio : con le quali descriue la sua vita, e non solo le cose a lvi svccesse ..
A 1648 Venetian printed memoir by the Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio, published by Paolo Baglioni for a readership of educated Italian readers interested in church and court affairs. The pictures are woodcut historiated initials and decorative headpieces with dense foliage, scrolls, putti and acanthus, offering a designer clear models for ornamental capitals, border strips and vintage letterform framing.




