Le cento novelle da messer Vincenzo Brugiantino, dette in ottava rima
A 1554 Venetian printing by Francesco Marcolini of Vincenzo Brusantini's ottava rima retelling of Boccaccio's Decameron tales, meant for Italian readers of vernacular verse. The pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each letter framed and filled with figures in a rough, dense, Renaissance line style, useful to a designer seeking inked, hatched decorative capitals and fantastical grotesque figures.
