Gl'inganni comedia
A 1562 Italian comedy by Niccolò Secchi, printed in Florence by the heirs of Bernardo Giunta, with woodcut decoration for a general reading public. The four pictures are typographic ornaments: a fleur-de-lis framed by grotesque scrollwork and putti, a vertical fleur-de-lis over a pair of cherubs on a bracket, a small roundel of a leaping animal, and a historiated initial I showing a figure beneath rays of sun. A designer could draw on their dense cut-line borders, scrolled cartouches and compact decorative initials.
