Amor tiranno : accademia fatta in casa dell'illustrissimo sig. senator Fantuzzi
Amor tiranno is a 1649 Italian printed libretto of an academy performance, published in Bologna by the Dozza heirs for a Bolognese senator's household. The page opens with a large woodcut historiated initial S, in which a figure with a staff stands among foliage beside a dragon-like creature, above a block of italic text set in justified columns. A designer could take the ornamental initial's interlace framing and the compact, dense italic text block as models for historical display typography.
