Cesonia : tragedia
Cesonia, a 1625 Italian tragedy printed in Naples by Scipione Bonino, is a dramatic text from the Getty Research Institute collection, with the author Filippo Finella credited. Its pictures are small printers' ornaments: a decorated initial letter, a rose-centred cartouche, a set of corner blocks beside a line of Italian text, and a frieze of winged putti. A designer could draw on their compact, symmetrical scrollwork for borders, initials and title-page decoration.
