Generosità d'amore : comedia nova, et piacevole
This is a 1629 Italian comedy, Generosità d'amore, by Caio Gnavio, printed in Venice by Ghirardo Imberti for readers of popular theatre. The four pictures are small printed decorative elements: a large ornamental initial letter with foliage, a grotesque mask with scrolls, a historiated initial with a leafy N, and a headed panel with a bearded face between pillars. Designers can take from them the dense, woodcut-style ornament of early seventeenth-century Venetian printing, where letters, scrolls and masks fill the space.
