Io. Baptistae Portae neapolitani De hvmana physiognomonia libri IIII
Della Porta's De humana physiognomonia, printed in Naples in 1586 by Giuseppe Cacchi, is a Latin treatise on physiognomy that matches human faces with animal heads to argue for character resemblances. Its pictures are paired profile studies of men set beside animal heads such as a ram and a donkey, showing how a designer can build expressive contrast through side-by-side comparison of human and animal features.
