Il geloso : comedia
Il geloso is a 1544 Italian comedy by Ercole Bentivoglio, printed in Venice by Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari for a reading audience. The pictures are woodcut decorated initials, each a large letter framed in a black border with figures set inside: a satyr-like creature, a bearded old man with a staff, a woman and a man with a pole, and a man swinging a sword. A designer might take from them the compact framed-initial format and the bold black-and-white line carving of Renaissance print.
