Givditio sopra la tragedia di Canace & Macareo : con molte utili considerationi circa l'arte tragica, et di altri poemi : con la tragedia appresso
A 1550 Italian critical treatise by Bartolomeo Cavalcanti, printed in Lucca by Vincenzio Busdrago, judging Sperone Speroni's tragedy Canace and offering general reflections on tragic art for scholars and readers of Italian drama. The pictures are woodcut printer's devices: an ornate framed title page with a central cartouche and hanging floral swags, a shield-like printer's mark with a winged griffin-type creature, a dragon-like emblem on the Canace title page, and a historiated initial C with a seated figure; a designer might draw on their dense, symmetrical framing and emblematic beasts.
