Il tiranno di Colco
Il tiranno di Colco is a 1688 printed book from Florence, written by Giovanni Maria Pagliardi (1637-1702) and framed as a history of the tyrant Clearchus of Heraclea. Its four pictures are small printed ornaments: a dense repeating tile-like pattern, a row of decorative capital-style letterforms, a symmetrical pair of birds flanking a central motif, and a flower-filled basket, all in bold black woodcut-style shapes a designer could adapt as borders, dividers, or repeat patterns.
