Opuscoli
Opuscoli is a small early seventeenth-century Italian printed collection by Vincenzo Gramigna, 1580-1650, published in Florence in 1620 by Pietro Cecconcelli. The pictures are repeated woodcut ornamental headpieces and tailpieces with a central mask or female head, flanked by scrolls, serpents, and swags. A designer could take from them the symmetrical cartouche structure, the grotesque mask and scroll vocabulary of Florentine Baroque print decoration.
