Senensis de regno et regis institvtione libri IX ad Alphonsvm Aragonivm inclytvm acce leberrimum Calabriae Ducem scripti... Editio postrema
A 1594 Latin treatise on kingship by Francesco Patrizi of Siena, printed at Strasbourg by Zetzner and addressed to Alfonso of Aragon, Duke of Calabria, for scholars and rulers. Its pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, a large M, P, and T with ornate scrollwork and a D framed by a grotesque mask and serpents, offering designers models for historiated capitals and ornamental letterforms.












