Canzonette del sig. Gasparo Murtola : con altre rime del medesimo non più stampate
A 1608 Italian poetry collection by Gaspare Murtola, probably printed in Venice, offering verse for a literate reading public. Its four woodcut ornaments are printer's headpieces: a grotesque mask with scrolls and wings, and a central female figure framed by curling volutes and hanging tassels, repeated in alternating pairs. A designer could take from them the symmetrical scroll-and-mask framing of early modern title decoration, with wings, volutes and pendant fringe that suit ornamental borders.
