La moral' filosophia del Doni, tratta da gli antichi scrittori
A 1552 Venetian printed moral philosophy treatise by Anton Francesco Doni, issued by the printer Francesco Marcolini and drawn from classical writers for a general readership of the period. The pictures are repeated woodcut tailpiece or headpiece strips of symmetrical scrolling foliage, with a central blossom flanked by leaves, tendrils, and small birds, printed in black on a pale textured ground, offering a designer a ready model for border ornament and symmetrical floral repeat patterns.
