Le gare d'Amore, e di Marte, festa d'armi, e di ballo : rappresentata in Palazzo il Carnouale del 1662 ; alla presenza dell' Eminentiss. e Reuerendiss. Sig. Card. Farnese, legato di Bologna
A 1663 Italian festival book printed in Bologna by Giacomo Monti, recording a carnival entertainment of love and war staged in the palace for Cardinal Farnese, the papal legate. Its four pictures are small woodcut decorations: an ornate initial V, a flowered initial F, a vase of blossoms, and a fleur-de-lis finial. A designer could draw on their dense, hand-cut botanical and scrollwork vocabulary for borders, initials and ornament.
