Vita dell' inclito et santissimo Domenico patriarca del sagro ordine de predicatori
A Florentine Italian biography of Saint Dominic, the founder of the Dominican order, printed in 1572 by B. Sermartelli and written by Francesco Cattani da Diacceto for a religious readership. The pictures are four repeated decorative woodcut initial letters, a large capital L framed by scrolling foliage, grotesque animal heads and curling tendrils, which a designer could take as a model for ornamental letterforms and border framing.
