Svpplimento delle piacevoli, ingeniose, et argutissime lettre. Indrizzate a diuersi, sotto varij, & bellissimi discorsi, nello antico volgare idioma composte, & dichiarite con moralissimi vocaboli
A 1556 Venetian letter collection by Andrea Calmo, printed in Venice by Allesi, addressed to various correspondents in the old Italian vernacular. The pictures are small woodcut initial letters, a decorated S and a T, with a reclining figure, a standing man and woman among trees, and a figure beneath a sun-like face. Their bold outlines and framed panels suggest a designer could borrow the decorative initial-letter format for historical display typography.
