La Penelope : tragedia
La Penelope is an Italian tragedy by Giuseppe Salio, printed in Padua in 1724 by Giuseppe Comino and drawing on the Greek myth of Penelope. The four pictures are decorative woodcut ornaments: a cherub's face framed by scrolling acanthus and C-scrolls, and rococo acanthus-leaf bands, one closing the text with the word IL FINE. A designer could borrow the symmetrical scroll cartouches and leafy border strips for period-style headers, dividers, or frames.
