Ateneo dei letterati milanesi
Ateneo dei letterati milanesi is a 1670 Milan imprint by Filippo Picinelli, a biographical catalogue of Milanese men of letters, printed by Francesco Vigone. The pictures here are small woodcut tailpieces and decorative vignettes: a flower basket on a footed urn, a fruit and blossom arrangement on a plinth, a peacock among leafy stems, and a scrolled mask with tassels. A designer could draw on their compact, self-contained ornament for borders, dividers and small-scale headpieces in a seventeenth-century manner.
