L'amazone del celibato, o sia, La vergine parigina : opera sagra
A seventeenth-century Italian devotional text printed in Bologna in 1694 by Simone Grassi for the Longhi press, dedicated to a patron in the opening pages. The pictures are small woodcut and typographic ornaments: scrolled volutes, a grotesque mask flanked by curling tendrils, and a foliate initial letter beside the printed Italian text. A designer could draw on their dense, carved line work and symmetrical scroll structure for borders, frames and capital letters.
