Il geloso comedia del S. Hercole Bentivoglio
A 1544 Italian comedy, Il geloso, by Ercole Bentivoglio, printed in Venice by Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari. The pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each letter framed in a square with a figure set inside or beside it. A designer could take from them the compact, dense black-and-white woodcut ornament of sixteenth-century Venetian printing, useful for decorative capitals and borders.
