Il Britanico : tragedia
Il Britanico is a tragedy by Jean Racine, printed in Bologna by the Longhi press, with Pierre Corneille credited among its authors. The two pictures are a woodcut-style framed vignette of a seated female figure with curling foliage at her sides and a historiated initial letter set beside lines of Italian text. A designer could take from them the framed decorative ornament of early Italian printing and the contrast between a pictorial emblem and a plain letter-shaped capital.
