Il trionfo della fede ne' sponsali di Sofronia e d'Olindo : oratorio
An Italian oratorio libretto printed in Ferrara in 1688 by Bernardino Pomatelli, with words by Francesco Milliati, for performance as a sacred musical drama. The three pictures are small woodcut decorations: a flowering urn with scrolling acanthus, a historiated initial N framed in foliage, and a winged griffin-like bird perched on a branch. A designer could draw on their dense botanical scrollwork and compact framing of a single letter.
