Le uite de pittori, scoltori, et architetti genouesi e de' forastieri, che in Genoua operarono con alcun ritratti de gli stessi
A 1674 Genoese biographical dictionary by Raffaele Soprani, published in Genoa by Giuseppe Bottaro and Gio. Battista Tiboldi, collecting lives of artists and architects who worked in Genoa for readers interested in local art history. The pictures are small woodcut decorative initials, each a large letter framed in a square border of pansy-like flowers, leaves and vines, a compact vocabulary a designer could adapt for monograms, borders or historical print ornament.
