L'interesse : comedia
L'interesse is a 1581 Italian comedy printed in Venice by Francesco Ziletti, with text by Evangelista Ortense, written for readers of Italian vernacular drama. The pictures are decorative woodcut initials, historiated letters framed in ornamental borders with scrolled foliage and interlace, set beside lines of italic type; a designer could take from them the logic of a paired initial and text block.
