Regole militari sopra il gouerno e seruito particolare della caualleria
A 1611 Italian military manual on cavalry government and service, written by Lodovico Melzo and printed in Antwerp for officers and horsemen. Its pictures are decorative woodcut initials with small figures set in ornate frames, showing grotesque scrollwork, birds, and figures of musicians, a woman with a basket, and a seated man with a dog. A designer could take from them the compact, ornamental framing of a letter with a figure inside it.
