Il trionfo della china china
A 1699 Italian printed book issued in Florence by Giuseppe Manni, written by Ansano Francesco Girolami, a late seventeenth-century author, and aimed at a general reader of Italian prose on the subject of cinchona bark. Its pictures are decorative woodcut initials with dense scrollwork, acanthus leaves, and a grotesque face set into the letter, the kind of ornament a designer could borrow for display capitals and border frames.
