Documenti d'amore
Documenti d'amore is a 1640 Italian book printed in Rome by Vitale Mascardi, edited by Count Federico Ubaldini from Francesco da Barberino's medieval text on courtly love. The pictures shown are woodcut printer's ornaments: a scrolled cartouche, a large historiated initial E, a decorated I with foliage, and a Q enclosed in a leafy frame. A designer could take from them the dense, cut-line decorative vocabulary of seventeenth-century Italian letterpress, useful for initials, dividers and vignettes.
