Comedia del Contile chiamata La Cesarea Gonzaga
A 1550 Italian comedy by Luca Contile, printed in Milan by Francesco Marchesino, held by the Getty Research Institute and intended for a learned readership of the Renaissance period. The two pictures are small black-and-white woodcut devices: one shows a cross above an anchor with an entwined serpent and the initials F and M, the other a draped female figure leaning on a column in an oval frame with a Latin motto, both with fine hatched lines a designer could adapt for emblem-style marks, monograms, or vintage printer's ornaments.
