Ivnii Ivvenalis Aqvinatis Satyrographi opvs : nunc demvm ab omnibvs mendis purgatum, & pluribus collatis exemplaribus suo candori restitutum
This is a 1548 Venetian printed edition of Juvenal's Latin satires, published by Franciscus Bindonus and Mapheus Pasinus and corrected against several manuscript copies for scholars and readers of classical Latin. The four woodcuts here are small framed scenes with Latin captions, each set above a satire, and they show clothed figures in conversation, reclining, or gesturing against simple landscape backgrounds. A designer might take their compact narrative framing, the stiff gestural poses and the decorated initial S with its figures and cottage, as models for captioned panels or historical vignettes.
