I trattenimenti
A 1591 Italian book printed in Venice by Bernardo Giunti, written by Scipione Bargagli about games played in Siena, with its opening letters set as decorative woodcut initials. The pictures are small framed capitals filled with grotesque masks, winged creatures and acanthus scrolls, a vocabulary a designer could borrow for ornamental initials, border frames and historicist display type.
