Dialogo di M. Nicolo Franco, doue si ragiona delle bellezze. Alla eccellentissima Marchesana del Vasto
A 1542 Italian dialogue by Niccolò Franco on the nature of beauty, printed at Casale di Monferrato and dedicated to the Marchesa del Vasto, with its illustrations being woodcut portrait medallions. Both pictures show the same bearded man in profile-turned three-quarter view inside an oval frame with an inscribed name band above and a Latin motto on a plinth below, the bold linework and tight oval framing suggesting a compact vignette for a title page or author portrait.
