L'Adone : poema
L'Adone is a 1623 Italian epic poem by Giambattista Marino, published in Paris by Oliviero di Varano, with a commentary by Fortuniano Sanvitale and a preface by Jean Chapelain, aimed at the educated readers of the French and Italian courts. Its pictures are small woodcut ornaments: a strapwork cartouche with a face at its top and laurel sprays at its sides, and a horizontal frieze of foliage, satyr-like figures and grotesque masks. A designer could borrow the symmetrical strapwork and foliate scroll borders as period decoration for headers, frames and title panels.
