Il fedele : comedia
Il fedele is a 1576 Italian comedy by Luigi Pasqualigo, printed in Venice by Bolognino Zaltieri for a literate reading public. The pictures are small woodcut decorations: a historiated initial S with a grotesque face in acanthus scrollwork, a C initial with a face, a printer's device of a shield on a cartouche, and a strapwork headpiece with a central mask flanked by foliage, useful for designers seeking Renaissance ornament and grotesque motifs.
