Le vite de i dodeci visconti che signoreggiarono Milano
A 1645 Milan printed book of lives of the Visconti rulers of Milan, by Paolo Giovio, Lodovico Domenichi and G. P. Bianchi, aimed at a readership interested in Italian nobility. The pictures are decorative woodcut initials and a grotesque-style headpiece, with a crowned figure, a seated man with a dog-like creature, bearded figures and winged serpentine ornament, offering a designer historic letterforms and grotesque border motifs to adapt.
