Trattato de' giochi e de' divertimenti permessi, o proibiti ai cristiani
An 18th-century Italian treatise on permitted and forbidden games and amusements for Christians, printed in Rome in 1768 by Michel' Angelo Barbiellini, held by the Getty Research Institute. The four pictures are typographic ornaments: a floral garland, a flower urn with scrollwork and the 'In Roma MDCCLXVIII' imprint, a winged putto amid acanthus scrolls, and a decorated initial N set in a square frame. A designer could draw on the mix of rococo scrollwork and compact woodcut borders for period headers, frames and dividers.
