Il re Gernando : tragedia
A 1624 Italian tragedy, Il re Gernando, by Lodovico Rota, printed in Venice by Giacomo Sarzina for a reading public of the period. The pictures are small woodcut decorative initials, each a large letter O or Q set in a square frame of scrolling foliage. A designer could take from them the compact interplay of letterform and vegetal ornament that fills a square field.
