Le iscrittioni poste sotto le vere imagini de gli huomini famosi : le quali à Como nel museo del Giouio si veggiono
A 1552 Florentine printed book by the historian Paolo Giovio, whose Italian inscriptions accompany portraits of famous men held in his museum at Como, aimed at scholars and readers of Italian biography. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each framed in a black border with a large letter enclosing a scene of figures in landscape, such as a seated woman in a sunburst, a pair of nude figures among trees, and couples in a rural setting, offering a designer compact decorative capitals and framed vignette ideas.
