La centavra : svggetto diviso in commedia, pastorale, e tragedia
A 1622 Italian play printed in Paris by Nicolas della Vigna, written by Giovanni Battista Andreini and titled La centavra, a tale divided into comedy, pastoral and tragedy. The pictures are repeated woodcut headpiece and ornament borders, with a central mask-like face flanked by scrolling foliage, arabesques and grotesque beasts, useful for a designer seeking early seventeenth-century decorative strapwork.
