Il duello del Mutio Iustinopolitano ..
This is a 1550 Venetian treatise on dueling by Girolamo Muzio, printed by Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari and brothers for a readership of gentlemen and men of honour. The pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each a letter framed by a scene of figures in 16th-century dress, with dense parallel hatching and cream-coloured paper showing through the lines, offering a designer compact, decorative capital letters built around a figurative scene.
