Le dve cortigiane : comedia
Le due cortigiane is a 1567 Venetian comedy by Lodovico Domenichi, printed by Francesco Franceschini in Venice and dedicated to Luca Sorgo, a Ragusan gentleman. The first picture is a historiated initial with a bearded figure in a small woodcut frame beside columns of italic text, while the second is a title page with a central cartouche flanked by putti, set in spaced capitals; a designer could borrow the framed initial and the centred, symmetrical title layout.
