Comedia di Pidinzuolo
A 1531 Venetian printed book of Italian pastoral comedy and eclogue, issued by the press of Marchio Sessa for a literary readership. Its title page is framed by a woodcut border of putti, animals and foliage, and a small printer's device shows a crowned animal within a circle flanked by the initials M and S. A designer might take from it the dense, symmetrical frame ornament and the compact emblem-style device, both suited to vintage print layouts and monograms.
