Il Cesare : tragedia
Il Cesare is a 1594 Italian tragedy by Orlando Pescetti, printed in Verona by Girolamo Discepolo and held by the Getty Research Institute. The pictures are woodcut historiated initials, each a letter inside a square frame filled with small scenes, such as a griffin beside a hillside town, a winged creature in foliage, a landscape with a fountain-like rock and trees, and a grotesque beast among vines. A designer could take from them the compact logic of a framed capital letter that holds a miniature world within it.
