Comedie di m. Girolamo Parabosco ..
A sixteenth-century Italian comedy collection by Girolamo Parabosco, printed in Venice in 1560 by Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari for a reading public. Its pictures are woodcut initial letters, mostly large capitals filled with putti, foliage and grotesque ornament, and a designer could take from them the decorated-capital repertoire of Venetian Renaissance printing, with its cherubs and scrolled framing.
