Del modo di fortificar le città : trattato
A 1554 Italian treatise on fortification by Giovanni Battista de' Zanchi, printed in Venice by Plinio Pietrasanta for military engineers and builders. Its pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, each an H, D, or A framing small scenes of armoured soldiers, a figure with a wheeled device, and a landscape, giving a designer ready-made models of ornamental lettering with figurative inset panels.
