Il Cavalcanti; overo, La difesa dell'Anticrvsca
Il Cavalcanti is a 1614 Italian polemical treatise by Paolo Beni, printed in Padua by F. Bolzetta, in part a reply to Lionardo Salviati and aimed at scholars of the Italian language and literature. Its pictures are small woodcut printer's ornaments: an oval frame of interlaced leaves, a repeated urn or vase with scrolled foliage above and below, and a decorated initial letter with vines and foliage. A designer could draw on their compact symmetrical borders, interlace patterns and cut-out vessel motif for historical headers or type-driven layouts.
