Germani Audeberti Aurelii Venetiae
A 1583 Latin book printed in Venice by the Aldine press, written by the French poet Germain Audebert, and held by the John Carter Brown Library. Its pictures are small woodcut decorative initials and a floral tailpiece, with a bird inside a looped C, a serpent-entwined H, and roses with buds. A designer could take from them the compact, letter-based ornament of sixteenth-century Venetian printing, where animals and foliage are fitted into the body of a capital.
