Della ragion di stato et della prudenza politica : libri quatro
A 1623 Italian political treatise printed in Urbino by Alessandro Coruini, on reason of state and political prudence, from the library of John Adams. Its pictures are woodcut decorative pieces: a scrolling strapwork border, a repeating ornamental band, and historiated initials, the S and the E, each framing a small putto and a landscape with towers, useful to a designer for ornament, initial letters and border patterns.
