Breve racconto dell' opere prodigiose : fatte con minutissimo intaglio da Ottaviano Iannella ascolano
A 1676 Italian pamphlet printed in Ascoli by the Saluioni press, written by Giovanni Battista Tuti, describing miniature wood carvings made by Ottaviano Iannella of Ascoli. The two pictures are small crude woodcut-style prints, one showing a curling, scaled creature with a tufted mane and a long tail, the other a round framed scene of figures within a crescent-shaped border. A designer might take from them the compact, dense linework of early print ornament and the way a small framed vignette can hold a crowded scene.
