I falsi dei : favola pastorale piaceuolissima
A 1599 Milanese printed book, I falsi dei, a pastoral fable by Ercole Cimilotti, issued by the Milan press of Pietro Martire Locarni for a general reading public. The picture is a single decorative woodcut initial N set within a square border, its letter formed from a stroke of plain white against a field of curling foliage. A designer could take from it the idea of a large foliated capital letter used as a framed opening ornament for a title or chapter.
