Discorso del danno che cagionano le comedie, et lascivi spettacoli
A late sixteenth-century Italian printed treatise by Juan de Pineda, published in Florence in 1599, arguing against theatre and lascivious shows. The two pictures are small woodcut printer's ornaments: an oval cartouche framing a ship on waves within scrolling strapwork and cherubs, and a symmetrical scrolled headpiece with fleshy volutes and a central flower. A designer could take from them the dense, heavy-line woodcut style of Renaissance tailpieces and the framing logic of cartouches and symmetrical head ornaments.
