Il cannocchiale aristotelico, o sia, Idea dell'arguta et ingeniosa elocutione : che serue à tutta l'arte oratoria, lapidaria, et simbolica
A Baroque treatise on wit, metaphor and emblem-making by the Turinese theorist Emanuele Tesauro, printed by Bartolomeo Zavatta at Turin in 1670 with plates engraved by Giorgio Tasnière after Domenico Piola, addressed to preachers, poets and deviser of imprese. The index holds woodcut initial letters set in dense laurel and acanthus foliage, black-heavy and coarsely cut, usable as drop caps, monogram frames or repeating leaf patterns.
