L'amoroso sdegno : favola pastorale
A 1598 Venetian pastoral fable by Francesco Bracciolini, printed by Giovanni Battista Ciotti for a literate Italian readership. The pictures are decorative woodcut initials, each an ornate capital letter filled with foliage, scrollwork, and small figures. A designer could draw on their dense, interlaced borders and the way letterforms are built from vines and knotwork.
