Le sei giornate di M. Sebastiano Erizzo
Le sei giornate is a 1567 Venetian dialogue by Sebastiano Erizzo, published in Venice by Giovan Varisco and partners, with Lodovico Dolce among its associated names. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each letter framed and filled with a scene of figures in dress and action, the letters repeated across the book. A designer could take from them the compact, dense black-and-white narrative inset in a capital letter, a model for decorative drop caps.
