Della tramutatione metallica sogni tre
Della tramutatione metallica sogni tre is an alchemy treatise printed in Brescia in 1599 by Pietro Maria Marchetti, a publisher active between 1565 and 1615. The four pictures are small woodcut printer's ornaments, not narrative scenes: two circular medallions holding a stylised fleur-de-lis with scrolled leaves, and two tall rectangular panels filled with interlaced foliage and curling tendrils. A designer could take from them a compact repertoire of Renaissance border and initial-frame ornament built on symmetry and dense scrollwork.
