Dialogo dell'imprese
Dialogo dell'imprese is a 1594 Italian treatise on devices, written by Torquato Tasso and printed in Naples by the Stigliola press for publisher Paolo Venturini, aimed at readers interested in heraldic emblems. Its two pictures are woodcut initials and a motto frame: one with a clasped hand and ribbon scroll inside a leafy letter C, the other a large decorative I with scrolling foliage, a small figure, and a grotesque creature. A designer could take from them the interlaced foliage, ribbon banners, and dense scrollwork typical of Renaissance woodcut lettering.
