Il fvrto : comedia
Il fvrto is a 1564 comedy by Francesco d'Ambra (1499-1558), printed in Florence by the Giunti press and held by the Getty Research Institute. The pictures are a woodcut printer's ornament, a fleur-de-lis flanked by two putti within a scrolled frame with grotesque masks, and a second image of blotched, cracked plaster with a stone ledge; a designer might take the ornament's symmetrical scrollwork and cherub figures as a model for framing devices, while the plaster is useful only as weathered texture.
