Della ragione di stato, libri dieci
Della ragione di stato, libri dieci is a 1598 Italian work on statecraft by Giovanni Botero, printed in Milan for a learned readership of political thinkers and rulers. The pictures are decorative woodcut initials, shown here as an O, a D, an H and an S, with foliate scrollwork, leafy tendrils and hatched shading that a designer could borrow for ornamental capitals and historical borders.
