Goffredo, overo, Gierusalemme liberata, : poema heroico
This is an Italian heroic epic poem by Torquato Tasso, printed in Venice in 1611 by Giacomo Sarzina, about the First Crusade and the capture of Jerusalem. The pictures are small woodcut historiated initials and decorative headpieces, where a large letter M frames a scene of two figures wrestling or struggling among foliage and beasts, with crisp black-and-white line work a designer could borrow for ornamental capitals.
