Aristocratia conservata, ouero, Del decemvirato di Lesbo : libri quattro
Aristocratia conservata is an Italian political treatise by Vincenzo Sgualdi, printed in Venice in 1634 by the Sarzina press for a learned readership interested in utopias and aristocratic government. The pictures are repeated woodcut ornament bands, each a symmetrical strip of grotesque scrollwork, cartouches, and cherub or mask faces flanked by corbel-like brackets, a pattern a designer could adapt for borders and dividers.
