Gl'amanti schiavi : comedia ridicolosa, o piutosto, capriccioso chriribizzo
Gl'amanti schiavi is a 1631 Italian comedy printed in Orvieto by the Riuuli press, written by Francesco Miedel as a playful comic piece. The pictures are not figures but printer's ornaments: square corner pieces with scrolling foliage around a central letter, and cross-shaped decorative blocks built from curled acanthus-like scrollwork, set beside dense black-letter Italian text. A designer could draw on their compact symmetrical frames, interlaced flourishes, and the way small ornaments were assembled into modular borders.
