Della tramutatione metallica sogni tre
An alchemy treatise by Giovanni Battista Nazari, printed in Brescia in 1599 for a learned readership interested in transmutation of metals. Its pictures are small woodcut scenes of two men conversing in a landscape, a decorative initial with flames and a grotesque figure, and a foliate ornamental initial, a designer could take from them the period's compact framed woodcut vignettes and decorative letter forms.
