Il negromante : comedia
Il negromante is a 1535 Venetian printing of Ariosto's comedy, published by Bernardino Venitiano di Vidali for a general readership of Italian Renaissance letters. The title page carries a woodcut portrait of a bearded man in profile, framed in a rectangle beneath the lettering. A designer might take from it the dignified, compact title-page layout of early printed books, with a centred serif title block and a boxed portrait set in plenty of paper.
