Convivio delle Belle Donne, page 2 (verso) 1532

This page from the 1532 "Convivio delle Belle Donne" is a verso (back) page from a book by the Italian artist Nicolò Zoppino. This book was published in Venice and was composed of 12 banquets filled with elegant recipes and beautiful drawings of plates and serving tables. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has a copy of this book with an illustration of a banquet, although this particular page is not the illustration but the text from Zoppino's recipe.