Il martirio di Santa Cristina vergine ...
This 1628 Italian book, Il martirio di Santa Cristina vergine, was written by Tolomeo Nozzolini and printed in Florence by Zanobi Pignoni, most likely for devotional readers. The pictures are small woodcut decorative initials: scrolling acanthus-style foliage frames a large letter, sometimes with a winged figure or flowers, offering designers a compact model for ornamental capitals and border framing.
