La strega : comedia
A 1582 Italian comedy, La strega by Anton Francesco Grazzini, printed in Venice by the Giunti press for a literate reading public. Its pages show a large woodcut historiated initial with interlaced foliage, a plain black-letter text block with a short list of houses and actors, and a heraldic woodcut escutcheon flanked by putti and scrolling ornament, which a designer could draw on for decorative capitals, letterpress layout, and armorial framing.
