La veglia
La veglia by Filippo Baldinucci, printed in Florence in 1690 by Piero Matini's press, is an Italian art treatise whose pages are decorated with small ornamental woodcut headpieces and tailpieces. The four pictures show a heraldic cartouche between scrolls, a pair of birds flanking flowers, a bearded grotesque mask with volutes, and a flowering urn with spreading leaves, all dense, symmetrical, and suited to borders, dividers, and ornamental vignettes in period-style layouts.
