Persio, tradotto in verso sciolto e dichiarato
A 1630 Italian edition of Persius's Satires, translated into blank verse and annotated, printed in Rome by Giacomo Mascardi for scholarly readers. Its two pictures are small woodcut printer's ornaments: a symmetrical scrolled headpiece and a flowering bouquet tied with a ribbon. A designer could take from them the vocabulary of early modern typographic decoration, with its stylised foliage and mirrored scrollwork used to frame and divide text.
