Della vita del P. Vincenzo Carafa ..
A 1651 Roman printed biography of the Jesuit Vincenzo Carafa by Daniello Bartoli, issued by the Robletti press for a devotional readership. The pictures are woodcut decorative initials and headpieces: a framed letter L set within scrolled foliage and a grotesque mask, a winged cherub-head ornament, and a radiant IHS monogram flanked by kneeling angels. A designer could take from them the dense, symmetrical baroque ornament of Counter-Reformation printing.
