Peregrinazione del mondo
Peregrinazione del mondo is a 1683 Italian travel book printed in Naples at the expense of Giuseppe Criscolo, with the imprint of Carlo Porsile, and its author is Francesco de la Serna y Molina, a 17th-century writer. The four pictures shown are a historiated woodcut initial R, a decorated woodcut initial E with interlaced foliage, and two oval engraved portraits of men set within ornamental frames, one with a laurel wreath and heraldic shield, one bearded with a rosary. A designer could take from the initials a model for dense, looping woodcut ornament and from the portraits the formal oval-and-wreath framing used in early modern print.
