Opera
Opera is a 1570 Venetian cookery book by Bartolomeo Scappi, printed in Venice by Michele Tramezzino and written for professional cooks and the papal kitchen of Popes Paul III and Julius III. Its pictures are fine black-and-white engravings of kitchen equipment such as pots, ewers, scales, stoves, and moulds, laid out in orderly grids with Italian captions, offering a designer clean, labelled arrangements of tools and vessels.
