Tragedie

Dolce, Lodovico, 1508-1568, Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. Thyestes, Euripides. Medea, Euripides. Iphigenia in Aulis, Euripides. Hecuba · 1560 · In Vinegia : Appresso Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari · 50 pictures

A 1560 Italian edition of Renaissance tragedies by Lodovico Dolce, with classical plays by Seneca and Euripides, printed in Venice by Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari for readers of Italian drama. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each a letter framed in a square with a central medallion of foliage, a grotesque face, or a bearded head, offering designers compact decorative capitals with strong black-and-white contrast.

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