Le medicine partenenti alle infermità delle donne
A 1574 Venetian medical treatise on women's diseases by Giovanni Marinello, printed by Vincenzo Valgrisi in Italian for a general readership of practitioners and women. The four pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, each framed in a square border with scrolling foliage, strapwork and grotesque ornament. A designer could draw on their dense, carved-looking line work and the way floral and curling forms fill a tight letter-shaped field.
