Gl'inganni : comedia
A 1584 Italian comedy by Niccolò Secchi, printed in Florence by the Giunti press, held by the Getty Research Institute. Its pictures are small woodcut decorations: a large initial Q with a landscape of a crouching animal and a ruined town inside, a historiated initial I showing a sun over a shore and a ship at sea, and a vertical ornament of two putti holding up a fleur-de-lis on a plinth. A designer could take from them the compact framed-initial format and the mix of pastoral scenes with grotesque ornament typical of Italian Renaissance print.
