La pittvra
Alberti's treatise on painting, printed in Venice in 1547 by Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari and translated into Italian by Lodovico Domenichi, is a dense text-only book of theory for working painters and students of perspective. The single picture is a printed page of closely set Italian type with a colophon and register, showing no diagrams, so a designer would take from it only the rhythm of an early Renaissance typeset page.
