Comedia di messer Lodouico Ariosto intitolata Cassaria : con l'argumento aggiunto et non piu stampato
A 1538 Venice edition of Ariosto's comedy Cassaria, printed by Nicolò Zoppino for a literate reading public. Its first picture is a woodcut portrait of the author in profile with a long beard and close-cropped hair, framed in a rectangle beneath the title. The second is a woodcut view of a Venetian canal city with a gondola, arcaded palazzi, and Gothic towers, a model for compact, high-contrast black-and-white line work.
