Il pentimento amoroso : nvova favola pastorale
Il pentimento amoroso is a 1576 Venetian pastoral fable by the Italian writer Luigi Groto, printed in Venice by Francesco Rocca. Its pictures are decorated woodcut initials, each a large capital letter set in a square frame filled with knotted foliage, scrolls, and shaded leaves, with the printed text beside them. A designer could take from them the vine-and-scroll letter frames and the way a large ornamental capital anchors a page of italic type.
