Il sensale : comedia
A 1561 Italian comedy, Il sensale, written by Francesco Mercati and printed in Florence by the Giunti press, with woodcut decorations in its pages. The first picture is a fleur-de-lis cartouche flanked by two grotesque figures, and the second is a historiated initial I showing a man in a hat beside a rayed sun over hills. A designer could draw on the framed ornament and the rayed-sun initial as period models for cartouches and decorative capitals.
