Il pellegrino : comedia nova
Il pellegrino is a sixteenth-century Italian comedy printed in Venice in 1552 by Giovanni Griffio, written by Gerolamo Parabosco for a reading or theatre-going public. Its pictures are small woodcut initials and decorative capitals, with the foliage-filled letter, the strapwork-like scrollwork, and the historiated letter showing a standing woman and a seated man in a landscape, plus a bearded head in a roundel; a designer could draw on their compact framing, interlaced vine ornament, and Renaissance woodcut line.
