Gli amorosi affanni : favola pastorale
A 1606 Florentine pastoral play by Vincenzo Panciatichi, printed by Giovanni Battista Ciotti of Siena. The pictures are small woodcut printer's ornaments: a circular framed rosette with scrolled corners and a flower or foliage motif, and a vase of flowers flanked by scroll handles. A designer could take from them the compact, symmetrical logic of early seventeenth-century Italian woodcut borders, where a central motif is enclosed by frame and corner flourishes.
