Il commodo : comedia d'Antonio Landi con i suoi intermedii : recitata nelle nozze de l'illustriss. & eccellentiss. s. il S. Duca di Firenze l'anno 1539
This is a 1566 Florentine printing of Antonio Landi's comedy Il commodo, with its intermedi, published by the Giunti heirs in Firenze for a ducal wedding audience. The four decorated initials here are woodcut historiated and floral letters: one shows interlaced foliage in a square, another a figure with flowing scrollwork, a large B with leafy ornament, and an O enclosing a single blossom. A designer could draw on their compact frames, strapwork and naturalistic flowers for border or initial-letter work.
