L'Euridice
L'Euridice is a 1600 Florentine libretto for an opera by Jacopo Peri, with words by Ottavio Rinuccini, printed in Florence by Cosimo Giunti's press for performance and reading by a courtly audience. The pictures are small woodcut historiated initials and fleuron ornaments, with a large letter I with grotesque foliage, a letter E with a mermaid-like female figure, and a fleur-de-lis cartouche flanked by putti in a printed border, offering designers ready models for ornamental capitals, cartouches and frame borders.
