La costanza : tragedia
A 1585 Italian printed tragedy titled La costanza, issued in Florence by the Giunti press and written by Niccolò Massucci, a sixteenth-century author. The pictures are woodcut decorative initials and ornaments set beside italic text, with a historiated letter P showing a hilly landscape, a letter D framing figures, and a central fleur-de-lis with winged putti. A designer might take from them the compact framed-initial format and the mix of landscape, figure, and foliage motifs used in early modern Italian printing.
