Edippo : tragedia
Edippo, a 1565 Italian tragedy by Giovanni Andrea dell'Anguillara after Sophocles, printed in Padua by Lorenzo Pasquato for a literate readership. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each letter framed with a scene: a figure reaching up in a landscape, a struggle beside a sea monster, a helmeted man in a domestic interior, and a figure leading a horse past a hill town. Designers can draw on their compact narrative framing, dense line-hatching, and the way figures fill the letter's counters.
