Il Perideo : tragedia
Il Perideo is a 1621 Italian tragedy in verse by Angelo Grossi, printed in Genoa by Giuseppe Pavoni. The pictures are small woodcut ornaments and decorated initial letters from its printed pages: a symmetrical cartouche with a lion-head mask, a scrolled panel with hanging tassels, and a historiated initial showing a seated figure beneath a radiant cloud. They suggest 17th-century Italian book ornament, useful for designers wanting engraved scrollwork, grotesque motifs, or framed capital letters.
