Il triompho
Il triompho is a sixteenth-century Italian printed book, published in Venice in 1558 by Giovan Battista Uberti and including his pastoral eclogue, likely for a literary readership. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each a letter framed in a black border with a scene inside, such as a figure with a tree, a mounted rider, a cloth-wrapped bundle, and a kneeling man with a dog; a designer could draw on their compact, dense black-and-white framing and figure vignettes for borders or capital letters.
