Commedia d'amore contro auaritia, & pudicitia, intitolata Il bicchiere
A 1578 Italian comedy printed in Siena by an unnamed printer, written by Mariano Trinci and titled Il bicchiere, a moral play against avarice and lust. The title page has a woodcut of a man in a fur-trimmed robe, a kneeling figure and a bearded old man around a table with a goblet, set on a checkered floor, with a woman in a short tunic at the right, and the cast list below shows the Italian stock characters. A designer might take the compact, crowded woodcut scene and the bold black-letter title block as models for period theatre posters or stage bills.
