L'esercizio accademico di picca
L'esercizio accademico di picca is a 1688 Italian military drill manual printed in Parma at the ducal press, written by Antonio Vezzani and others for pike training. Its pictures pair ornamental baroque cartouches of fruit, foliage and scrollwork with numbered figures of soldiers posed in pike drill, useful to a designer for decorative borders beside clear figure studies of period dress and stance.
