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Ifigenia : tragedia

Dolce, Lodovico, 1508-1568 · 1597 · In Venetia : Appresso Gio. Battista, & Gio. Bernardo Sessa · 8 pictures

Ifigenia is a 1597 Venetian printed edition of Lodovico Dolce's tragedy on the Greek myth of Iphigenia, issued by the Sessa press for a literary reading public. The four pictures are woodcut historiated initial letters, mostly the letter D, framed in black rectangles with dense scrolling foliage and interlace that a designer could adapt for decorative capitals.

Iphigenia (Greek mythology)

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