Amore prigioniero in Delo : torneo fatto da' signori Academici torbidi in Bologna li XX. di marzo M.DC.XXVIII
A 1628 Italian printed tournament description issued in Bologna by the heirs of Vittorio Benacci, recording a jousting festival staged by the Academici Torbidi, with its text by Giacinto Lodi and Giovanni Battista Coriolano. The pictures are woodcut historiated initials and ornamental headpieces, with one large decorated letter built from scrolling acanthus foliage and another enclosing a grotesque beast. A designer could draw on their dense scrollwork, mirrored strapwork cartouches and fleshy grotesque figures for decorative borders and initial letters.
