Teatro de gl'inventori di tutte le cose
Teatro de gl'inventori di tutte le cose is an Italian encyclopedia of inventions compiled by Vincenzo Bruno of Melfi and printed in Naples in 1603 by Tarquinio Longo for a general readership. The pictures are decorative woodcut initials: one of strapwork and scrollwork, one with leafy ornament, one with a winged figure in an open letter, and one framing a historical scene of robed men in a landscape, all showing how a designer can use ornamental capitals and framed narrative vignettes.
