Discorso di Raffael' Gvalterotti ... sopra l'apparizione de la nvova stella : e sopra le tre oscurazioni del sole, e de la luna nel anno 1605 : con alquanto di lume del arte del oro
A 1605 Italian astronomy treatise by Raffaello Gualterotti, printed in Florence at the Giunti press, discussing a new star and solar and lunar eclipses for a learned readership. The two pictures are woodcut decorated initials: one large letter I filled with scrolling acanthus leaves and a griffin-like bird, and one letter M framing a small nude figure among foliage. A designer could draw on their dense interlaced leaf work and the way the figure sits inside the letter form for historical decorative capitals.
