Malfatto : Rozza et amorosa : commedia
Malfatto, a rough and amorous comedy published in Siena in 1614 by the Congrega dei Rozzi, a Sienese academy of comic playwrights, printed at the Loggia del Papa. The title page carries a woodcut of a tree inside an oval frame with banners bearing mottoes, and a small woodcut on the facing page shows a figure fighting a large animal beneath trees. The images are simple, bold black line blocks with a tight, emblematic quality, useful for designers seeking early seventeenth-century Italian woodcut ornament, emblem-style framing and compact vignettes.
