Io. Batis. Portae Neap. De humana physiognomia li. VI : in quibus docetur quom[odo] animi propentes naturalibus remediis compesci possint

Porta, Giambattista della, 1535?-1615, Longo, Tarquinio · 1602 · Neapoli : Apud Tarquinium Longum : Sumptibus Pauli Venturini ... · 265 pictures

A 1602 Neapolitan treatise on physiognomy and the reading of character from facial features, printed in Naples by Tarquinio Longo for Paolo Venturini and written by Giambattista della Porta. The four pictures are woodcut decorative initials, each a large capital letter set inside dense interlaced scrollwork, leaf forms and hatched shading, a pattern source for historical ornament and letter design.

Physiognomy · Medicine

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