Della geneologia de gli dei di m. Giovanni Boccaccio libri qvindeci : ne' quali si tratta dell'origine, & discendenza di tutti gli dei de' gentili : con la spositione, & sensi allegorici delle fauole & con la dichiaratione dell'historie appartenenti a detta materia
This 1564 Venetian edition of Boccaccio's mythological treatise on the genealogy of the gods, with commentary by Giuseppe Betussi, was printed for scholars and readers of classical myth. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each framing a letter with a rustic scene of figures in landscapes with hills, towns and trees, a model for designers wanting compact narrative vignettes inside letterforms.
