La forza dell' amicitia : opera tragica
A 1659 Italian tragedy by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini, printed in Viterbo at the expense of Gregorio and Giovanni Andreoli. The single picture is a woodcut printer's ornament of a central face framed by flowers, ribbons and tassels, the kind of decorative headpiece used to open a section of text. A designer could take its symmetrical layout, with flanking flower clusters and hanging swags, as a model for a centred emblem or divider.
