La Sibilla : comedia
La Sibilla is a 1582 Italian comedy by Anton Francesco Grazzini, printed in Venice by Bernardo Giunti and brothers, held by the Getty Research Institute. The first picture is an ornamental woodcut heraldic cartouche with putti, grotesque scrolls and a shield of balls and a hat, while the second shows a large decorated initial A beside dialogue set in italic type with speaker names in the margin; a designer might take the framed heraldic border structure and the contrast of ornate initial letter against plain italic text.
