Il Corradino : tragedia
Il Corradino is a 1694 Italian tragedy printed in Rome by Gio. Francesco Buagni, with authors including Antonio Caraccio and Giovanni Battista Gaulli. The pictures are small black-and-white woodcut typographic ornaments: a grotesque winged mask with scrolling cartouches repeated across the set, and a horn-and-flower border with a putto. A designer could take the symmetrical scrollwork and mask motifs as tailpiece or header models for decorative borders.
