Musica nova di Adriano Willaert all'illustrissimo et eccellentissimo signor il signor donno Alfonso d'Este prencipe di Ferrara. Septima pars.
A 1559 Venetian music book, the seventh part of Adriaan Willaert's madrigal collection Musica nova, printed by Antonio Gardano for Alfonso d'Este, prince of Ferrara. The title page is a dense woodcut architectural frame with caryatid figures, a central scene and a coat of arms, while the facing page shows an oval bust portrait of the printer inside a strapwork cartouche with putti and grotesque masks. A designer might take from them the sixteenth-century Venetian habit of framing text with symmetrical architectural ornament, figure supports and oval portrait medallions.
