Arcadia di messer Giacomo Sannazaro nobile napolitano
An Italian pastoral romance by the Neapolitan poet Jacopo Sannazaro, printed in Venice in 1548 by Bartholomeo l'Imperadore for a literate reading public. The pictures are small woodcut initials and border pieces: an ornate S framed in leafy scrolls, a G with a putto among foliage, and a panel of interlaced strapwork and knotwork with a stylised bird, all in dense black-and-cream line that a designer could adapt for monograms, decorative capitals or vintage frames.
