Galeno Della natura et vertu di cibi in italiano
A 1562 Italian printing of Galen's treatise on the nature and virtues of foods, published in Venice by Giovanni Bariletto, a medical text on diet. The pictures are small woodcut decorative pieces: a historiated initial M with a grotesque face, a foliate strapwork border with a central urn, a D initial with a figure, and an A initial with scrolling ornament, offering designers period-style capitals and borders.
