Comedia intitolata Sine nomine
This is a 1574 Italian comedy printed in Florence at the Giunti press, held in a California library and once owned by William Sandys; its catalogue lists subjects of Marranos and Jews. The four historiated initials are small woodcut letters, each with a scene: a sunlit landscape with a dog, two nude figures beside a large A, a serpent-like S beside a standing man, and an N filled with ornamental foliage and fruit. A designer might take from them the dense hatched woodcut texture and the way figures are framed inside letterforms.
