Historia monastica di d. Pietro Ricordati, gia Calzolari ... distinta in cinque giornate
An Italian monastic history by Pietro Calzolari, printed in Rome in 1575 for a Catholic readership and held by Duke University Libraries. The pictures are woodcut decorative initials, each a large letter framed in a square with grotesque scrollwork, human figures, and foliage, offering a designer ready models for ornamental capitals and historiated letterforms.















