La Dafne
La Dafne is a 1600 Florentine printed libretto by poet Ottavio Rinuccini with music by composer Jacopo Peri, published in Firenze by Giorgio Marescotti, an early opera text. Its three pictures are a woodcut ship within a ring of carved strapwork, a heraldic shield with a crown and scrolling cartouche, and a historiated initial D beside a large engraved title line reading OVIDIO. A designer could draw on the ornamental frames, cartouches and decorated initial letter as period display type and border devices.
