I svppositi : comedia
I suppositi is a comedy by Lodovico Ariosto, printed in Venice in 1551 by Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari and brothers for a readership of Italian playgoers and literate readers. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each a letter framed in a black border with a scene inside: an archer with a bow, a wrestling or struggling pair, a man with an axe beside a letter N, and a figure in flames within a D. A designer might take from them the compact framed-initial format and the dense, hatched woodcut line.
