I piacevoli et ingeniosi discorsi in piv lettere compresi, e ne la lingua antica uolgari dechiariti. Nei qvali si contengono varii cherebizzi, e fantastiche fantasi philosophiche in varie materie, pur sempre à le uertù accostate
An Italian Renaissance miscellany of witty, philosophical letters and discourses by the Venetian writer Andrea Calmo, printed in Venice in 1557 by Alessi for a general literate readership. The pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each a large letter framed by scenes of figures, animals and landscape, showing how decorative capitals were built from narrative images that a designer could adapt for display type or border ornament.
