Tesoro politico in cvi si contengono relationi : istruttioni, trattati, & varij discorsi, pertinenti alla perfetta intelligenza della ragion di stato. Et all'intiera cognitione de gl'interessi, & dipendenze de' più gran prencipi, & signori del mondo. Diviso in tre parti
An Italian political treatise on reason of state, compiled by Comino Ventura (died 1617) and printed in Vicenza by Giorgio Greco in 1602 for statesmen and readers of political affairs. The pictures are four woodcut decorative initial letters, each a large capital I built from interlaced scrolls, leaf forms and hatched shading, a pattern a designer could adapt for display lettering or drop caps.
