Gli ornamenti delle donne tratti dalle scritture d'una Reina Greca
Gli ornamenti delle donne is a 1562 Italian printed treatise on women's cosmetics and beauty care by Giovanni Marinelli, published in Venice by Francesco de' Franceschi Senese. The pages open with large decorative woodcut initials, each set in a framed panel of foliage and figures, beside dense black-letter Italian text in justified columns. A designer could take the historiated initials as models for ornamental capitals and border framing.
