I fantasmi : comedia
A 1545 Italian comedy, I fantasmi, by Ercole Bentivoglio, printed in Venice by Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari for a readership of playgoers and literate readers. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each letter framing a scene of figures at a table or a man with a basket, drawn with dense parallel hatching and a clear black outline a designer could borrow for decorative capitals.
