La dote : comedia
La dote is a 1550 Italian comedy by Giovanni Maria Cecchi, printed in Venice by Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari and brothers for a reading audience of the Renaissance book trade. Its pictures are small woodcut devices: a phoenix rising from flames above a crest with the initials G and F, flanked by winged griffin-like creatures, and historiated initial letters showing figures in lush hatched foliage. A designer might take the compact printer's emblem and the dense, hand-cut line texture for classical ornament.
