Piovana comedia, overo noella del Tasco di Ruzante
A 1552 Venetian printed comedy by Ruzzante, issued by the press of Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari for a literate readership of the Italian Renaissance. The pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each a large letter framed by scenes of figures, animals, and landscape, which a designer could use as models for decorative capitals and compartmented page layouts.
