Mestola : comedia
A 1583 Italian comedy printed in Florence by Giorgio Marescotti, written by Cornelio Lanci and published with permission of superiors. Its pictures are small decorative woodcut initials and a title-page ornament, showing ornate letters C, S and L framed with interlace, foliage and grotesque scrollwork, plus a ship inside a cartouche; a designer could draw on these as compact frames, drop caps and border motifs for historical typography.
