L'Olivastro, overo, Il poeta sfortvnato : poema fantastico
Giovanni Battista Andreini's 1642 Italian fantastic poem L'Olivastro, printed in Bologna by Nicolò Tebaldini for a general readership of literary readers. The pictures are not illustrations but printed ornamental border strips of dense black scrollwork, with rosettes and paired C-scrolls, set against blank text columns; a designer could take the interlocking strapwork and corner pieces as a model for frames or repeat patterns.
