Dialogo di d. Crisostomo Talenti monaco di Vallombrosa, per le felicissime nozze de serenissimi di Toscana
A 1608 Florentine printed dialogue by Crisostomo Talenti, a Vallombrosan monk, written for the wedding of Grand Duke Cosimo II of Tuscany and Maria Maddalena of Austria, published by Cristofano Marescotti. The pictures are small black-and-white woodcut devices: a heraldic cartouche with putti supporters, a framed roundel of two nude figures, and a strip view of a hilltop city with a dome. A designer might take from them the crisp hatched line, the symmetrical cartouche framing, and the compact vignette format suited to title pages and headpieces.
