Il trionfo di Scappino
A 17th-century Italian comic poem, Il trionfo di Scappino, by Bartolomeo Bocchini, called Zan Muzzina, printed in Modena by Bartolomeo Soliani for a general reading public. The first picture is a dense block of Italian verse with a large decorated initial S, the title page shows a centred woodcut vase of flowers under a bold printed title, and the third is a square woodcut of interlaced scrolls and foliate ornament, useful to a designer for border and tile patterns.
