The new style is seen at its best in the books of 1540-60, the Petrarch of 1544 printed by gabriel Giolito, Boccaccio's Decamerone printed by Valgrisi in 1552, Ovid's Metamorphoses by Giolito in 1553. Finally, book-illustration peters out at Venice in pictorial capitals, which take as their subjects any heroes of Greek and Roman history and mythology whose names begin with the required letter, on the principle of the nursery alphabet in which "A was an Archer who shot at a frog, B was a Butcher who had a great dog."
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
There was some reason why a man like gabriel Harvey, living towards the end of Elizabeth's reign, should look back with regret to the time when England produced men like Cheke and his contemporaries.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
So Theocrite returned to his old self; and the angel gabriel became Pope instead of him.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr