I dissimili : comedia
A Italian comedy titled I dissimili by Giovanni Maria Cecchi, printed in Venice in 1550 by Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari and brothers for a readership of playgoers and literate readers. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each a letter framed around a scene of rural life, animals, or figures in landscape, with bold black outlines and hatched shading that a designer could borrow for decorative capitals.
