La forza d'amore : opera scenica
A 1662 Venetian printed opera scenica, La forza d'amore, by Giovanni Francesco Loredano, a 17th-century Italian drama issued by the Guerigli press in Venice. The pictures are small black-and-white engravings: a historiated initial M beside lines of Italian verse, a dense woodcut-style heraldic cartouche with dolphins and flowers, and a title-page scene of Cupid and a nude male figure beside the title lettering. A designer might borrow the ornate initial, the dolphin cartouche, or the stippled engraved figure style for period-flavored layouts.
