Quanto più alletti la bellezza dell' animo che la bellezza del corpo : trattato
An Italian treatise on the beauty of the soul over the beauty of the body, printed in Rome in 1680 by Angelo Bernabò under the authorship of Stefano Pignatelli and Queen Christina of Sweden. The picture is a large decorative initial S, with a leafy scrollwork border and a small roman numeral I in the upper corner, a typical printer's ornament for opening a chapter in a seventeenth-century text. A designer might draw on its dense, interlaced foliage and the way a single letter is framed by vine-like ornament within a square block.
