I fantasmi : comedia del S. Hercole Bentivoglio
A 1547 Venetian printed comedy, Ercole Bentivoglio's I fantasmi, issued by the publisher Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari for a literate reading audience. The pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each letter framed by a scene of figures in a Renaissance manner, with hatched lines and strong black-and-white contrast a designer could borrow for decorative capitals.
