La fancivlla : comedia
La fancivlla is a 1570 Italian comedy by Giovanni Battista Marzi and Benedetto Giorgeschi, printed in Bologna by Giovanni Rossi and held by the Getty Research Institute. Its pictures are four woodcut decorated initials, each a square frame filled with a large letter and hatched foliage, scrollwork and leafy knots, offering a designer period ornamental letterforms to adapt for opening capitals.
