L'Evridice
L'Evridice is a 1600 Italian opera libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini with music by Jacobo Peri, printed in Florence at the Cosimo Giunti press. Its pictures are woodcut ornaments: a fleur-de-lis framed by scrolls and putti, a fleur-de-lis rising from a vase with cherubs, and a decorated initial I with griffin-like creatures. A designer could draw on their dense, symmetrical scrollwork and cut-line woodcut vocabulary for borders and initials.
