Il pentimento di Maria Maddalena : poema dramatico
A 1615 Italian dramatic poem on the penitence of Mary Magdalene, printed in Rome by Guglielmo Facciotto for a literary readership, with ornaments drawn from early seventeenth-century Roman printing. The four pictures are typographic printer's ornaments: a symmetrical cluster of C-scrolls and fleurons, a second variant of it, a grotesque mask panel with scrolling foliage, and a heraldic cartouche with acanthus wings and a shield. A designer could take the scrolled symmetry and the acanthus framing as models for borders and title pages.
