Propositioni, overo Considerationi in materia di cose di stato, sotto titolo di Auuertimenti, Auuedimenti ciuili, & Concetti politici
This is a 1583 Venetian printing, published by A. Salicato in Venice, of political maxims and considerations compiled by Francesco Sansovino from Guicciardini and Lottini for statesmen and political readers. The pictures are small woodcut historiated initials: a richly scrolled decorative V and E, and M letters set against scenes of a man with a tool working among stones and rubble, which a designer could draw on for ornamental letterforms and framed narrative vignettes.
