I Bernardi, comedia di M. Francesco d'Ambra ..
A 1564 Italian printed comedy by Francesco d'Ambra, published in Florence by the Giunti press and likely meant for a literate reading audience. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials: a robed woman seated in a large letter Q beside a town, a figure with a horn-blower and a crouching beast inside a C, and a letter I framing a standing figure and a scene of figures in an interior. Designers can borrow the framed-letter structure, the dense horizontal hatching of the backgrounds, and the compact way each scene fills its letter.
