Il ragazzo : comedia
A 1594 Italian comedy printed in Venice by Gio. Battista Bonfadino, by Lodovico Dolce (1508-1568), with its pictures being decorative woodcut initials for a general reading audience. The four pictures are ornamental capitals with interlaced scrollwork, leafy tendrils and hatched shading, the letters I, S and D set inside foliage borders that a designer could adapt for historical display type or decorative drop caps.
