Il Vilvppo, comedia nova
Il Vilvppo, comedia nova is a 1560 Italian comedy by Gerolamo Parabosco, printed in Venice by Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari for a reading public. The pictures are woodcut decorative initials, one large I and several ornate S letters, with figures, masks and scrolling foliage packed into dense black-and-white frames that suggest Venetian Renaissance type ornament.








