Ristretto delle cose più notabili della città di Firenze
A 1719 Florentine guidebook to the city's notable sights, printed in Florence by Giuseppe Manni for Carlo Maria Carlieri and drawing on Raffaello del Bruno's earlier text. The pictures are woodcut historiated initials and a small floral tailpiece, with the large letter F set inside dense, interlaced foliate borders of acanthus scrolls, curling leaves and tendrils. A designer could draw on these frames for decorative capitals, border systems and the scroll-and-leaf vocabulary of early eighteenth-century Italian print.
