Il Pantalone imbertonao : comedia nuoua
A 1626 Italian comedy printed in Pavia by Giovanni Battista Rossi, written by Giovanni Briccio and held by the Getty Research Institute, printed in black on cream paper with ornamental woodcut initials and small devices. The two pictures are a decorated woodcut initial letter V with foliage and a woodcut of a winged griffin standing on a block, both showing the bold, rough line of early seventeenth-century Italian print ornament that a designer could borrow for emblem-style marks, drop caps, or heraldic motifs.
