Sito riminese
Sito riminese is a printed book by Raffaele Adimari, active around 1590, published in Brescia in 1616 by Gio. Battista and Ant. Bozzoli, with the record listing church buildings as its subject. The four pictures are woodcut decorative initials, a grotesque face inside a ring and P, D and N letters filled with foliage, showing how Renaissance printers built ornament from scrolling leaves and curling tendrils around a bold capital. A designer could take from them the interplay of black letterforms against dense, hand-cut vegetal filigree.
