Il fvrto : comedia
A 1561 Venetian printed comedy by Francesco d'Ambra, issued by the Rampazetto press in Venice for readers of Italian theatre, with its text set around historiated initials. The pictures are small woodcut initials with a letter-shaped frame enclosing scenes of figures in interiors, a winged putto, and a rural landscape, offering a designer compact narrative vignettes and ornamental letterforms for decorative capitals.
