La trinvtia : comedia
La trinvtia is a Florentine comedy by Agnolo Firenzuola, printed in Florence in 1549 by Bernardo Giunti for a literate readership of the Italian Renaissance. Its pictures are small woodcut devices: a title-page emblem of a serpent coiled around a flaming altar-like mound with a rising smoke or flame motif, and a historiated initial showing a seated figure beside a boat-like shape, framed by strapwork. A designer might take from them the compact, self-contained scale of sixteenth-century printers' ornament and its tight pairing of image and type.
