Vita del prencipe Andrea Doria
Vita del prencipe Andrea Doria is a 1565 Italian biography of the Genoese admiral Andrea Doria, written by Lorenzo Capelloni and printed in Venice by Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari for a readership of Italian readers. The pictures are small woodcut decorative initials and ornamental headpieces, with an inhabited capital N, a historiated A showing cattle, shepherds and a milkmaid, a pair of winged griffin-like beasts flanking a masked head, and a grotesque mask in a scrolled cartouche, offering designers period models for framing text and building lettered ornament.
