La Floria : comedia
La Floria is a comedy by Arsiccio Intronato, published in Florence by the Giunti press in 1567 and reprinted for an Italian reading audience. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials and printer's ornaments, with a framed letter showing two embracing figures in Renaissance dress against a landscape, and a flanking scene of a figure beside a sunburst. A designer could take from them the compact, dense vocabulary of sixteenth-century Italian woodcut borders and initials.
