Dialoghi del signor dottor Antonio Valsinieri ... sopra la curiosa origine di molti insetti ..
Dialoghi by Antonio Vallisnieri, an Italian physician and naturalist, printed in Venice by G. Albrizzi in 1700 as a dialogue on the origins of insects for a learned general readership. The picture is a decorative historiated initial F with leafy foliage and a small flower, set beside Italian text in a dense roman typeface, and a designer could take from it the pairing of a botanical woodcut initial with running text.
