Trattenimenti d'Ippocrate sopra i teatri moderni : indirizzati
Trattenimenti d'Ippocrate is an Italian treatise on modern theatres, written under the name Filocle and printed in Lucca in 1782 by Francesco Bonsignori. The picture is only a title-page ornament: a cartouche of scrolled foliage framing a mask-like face, set above the printed imprint and a rule. A designer could take from it a compact baroque-revival motif, with symmetrical scrollwork and a central face, suited to classical or theatrical headers.
