Il Solimano : tragedia
Il Solimano is a 1620 Italian tragedy by Prospero Bonarelli, printed in Florence at the Stamperia di Pietro Cecconcelli, with its book-related artwork linked to Jacques Callot and a subject of Sultan Süleyman I. The four pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, each an ornate capital with dense foliage, scrolls and small birds or flowers filling the letter's stems. A designer might take from them the tight, interlaced vegetal framing used to fill a drop-cap or border space.
