La fida ninfa : fauolo pastorale
La fida ninfa is a pastoral fable by Francesco Contarini, printed in Venice in 1598 by Giacomo Vincenti for a courtly readership. Its pages are text-led: a decorated woodcut initial, a printed heading, a small ornamental tailpiece of a grotesque lion-headed serpent, and a pine-cone emblem with a ribbon motto, which suggest classical scrollwork, italic dedication typography, and emblematic devices a designer could adapt.
