De le rime di diversi nobili poeti toscani
A 1565 Venetian printed anthology of Italian poetry, compiled by Dionigi Atanagi and issued by the Venice press of Lodovico Avanzo for scholarly and literary readers. Its pictures are woodcut historiated initials and a decorative headpiece, with a figure-filled N, a stooping pair of workers in a D, a B framing a rustic scene, and winged putti flanking a central mask. A designer might take from them the compact framed-initial format and the way small narrative scenes sit inside letterforms.
