Geneologia de gli dei : i quin deci libri di M. Giouanni Boccaccio, sopra la origine et discendenza di tutti gli dei de' gentili, con la spositione & sensi allegorici delle fauole, & con la dichiaratione dell'historie appartenenti à detta materia
Boccaccio's Genealogy of the Gods, a mythology treatise in Italian with commentary by Giuseppe Betussi, printed in Venice in 1547 by the Pozzo press for scholars and readers of classical myth. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each a framed letter enclosing a figure such as a winged woman, a horned demon face, a serpent-bodied figure, or a draped goddess, giving designers compact models for decorative letterforms and emblematic framing.
