L'assivolo : comedia
L'assivolo is a sixteenth-century Italian comedy by Giovanni Maria Cecchi, printed in Venice in 1550 by Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari and brothers for a reading public of literate townspeople. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each a large letter framing a scene of figures in working or everyday postures, cut in dense parallel hatching that a designer could borrow for decorative capitals, framing devices and vintage engraved texture.
