Puteolana historia
Puteolana historia is a 1604 Latin book by Giulio Cesare Capaccio, printed in Naples by Constantinus Vitalis, on the history and healing properties of the baths around Naples, Pozzuoli, Baia and Ischia. The four pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, a large E and three P's, with ornate scrolling foliage and small birds, animals and grotesque figures filling their frames. A designer could draw on them for hand-cut display capitals, drop caps or Renaissance-style ornamental frames.
