L'Eritrea : drama
L'Eritrea is a 1654 Italian opera libretto by Giovanni Faustini with music by Pier Francesco Cavalli, printed in Bologna by the HH. del Dozza press for an audience of theatre-goers. Its pictures are small woodcut decorations: a white-on-black historiated initial S with a figure and a serpent-like scroll, a crown, a stylised urn with foliage, and a letter P framing riders and a horseman, which a designer could borrow for ornamental initials, vignettes and dividers in period style.
