Orlando fvrioso di M. Lodovico Ariosto : con gli argomenti in ottaua rima di M. Lodouico Dolce ; et con l'allegorie à ciascun canto di Thomaso Porcacchi da Castiglione Aretino, diligentemente corretto, & di nuoue figure adornato
Ariosto's Orlando furioso, a 1600 Venetian edition published by Nicolò Misserino with commentary by Dolce and Porcacchi, is an epic romance of chivalric knights for a literate readership. Its small woodcuts show armoured knights fighting on foot and horseback, with tents, hills, and a hanging figure in the landscape; a designer might borrow their compact, crowded composition and hatched linework.
