Il servigiale
Il servigiale is a 1561 Italian comic or satirical text by Giovanni Maria Cecchi, printed in Florence by the Giunti press, and the pictures here are small woodcut initials. Each one is a framed letter with figures set inside or beside it: a seated man and a standing bearded figure with a dog in the C, and winged figures with a T. The woodcuts are crude, with dense parallel hatching, and a designer might take from them the way a letter can hold a scene within its own shape.
