De' teatri antichi, e moderni : trattato in cui diversi punti morali appartenenti a teatro si mettono del tutto in chiaro : con la qual occasione risponde al P. Daniele Concina, chi vien ora in tal materia così fieramente attaccato da lui
This 1754 Italian treatise on ancient and modern theatre, written by the marchese Scipione Maffei and printed in Verona by Agostino Carattoni, answers the Dominican critic Daniele Concina on the moral questions of the stage. Its four ornamental headpieces are rococo cartouches of scrolling acanthus, garlands and tied bundles, each framing an open book with classical objects such as a helmet, a bowl, a sphere and a lyre, which a designer could borrow for cartouches, vignettes and title-page frames.
