Il prelvdio felice : mvsicali acclamationi consacrati da S.E. il signor Marco Contarini, procurator di S. Marco, all' Altezza Serenissima d'Ernesto Avgvsto, vescovo d'Osnabrvg, duca di Bransuich, Luneburgo, &c. : in occasione, che l' A.S. fauorisce S.E. nel luoco di Piazzola
A 1685 printed libretto of festive musical acclamations in Italian, published at Piazzola by Francesco Maria Piccioli and Domenico Freschi, honouring Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, during a visit to Marco Contarini's estate. The pictures are woodcut heraldic achievements with a large scrolled crest, and a woodcut strapwork frieze with rearing animals and a figure scene, plus a decorated initial C. A designer could take the dense scrollwork, shield framing and small figural vignettes as models for ornamental borders and heraldic emblems.
