Della institvtione morale
Della institvtione morale is a 1560 Italian ethics treatise by Alessandro Piccolomini, printed in Venice by Giordano Ziletti for a scholarly readership. The pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each a letter framed in fine hatched lines with a seated or reclining figure, a bird-like cloud scene, or a tiny town, offering a designer compact models of Renaissance decorative capitals and border framing.









