Le nozze degli dei : favola
Le nozze degli dei is a 1637 Florentine festival libretto by Giovanni Carlo Coppola, with illustrations by Stefano Della Bella and Alfonso Parigi, printed by Amadore Massi and Lorenzo Landi for the Medici court of Ferdinando II and Vittoria. The four pictures are woodcut-style headpieces and tailpieces: a mask-centred strapwork cartouche, a frieze of reclining putti and herms, and grotesque scrolls with satyrs beside a flowered urn. Designers could borrow the scrolling strapwork, the satyr-and-urn symmetry, and the compact horizontal banner format for decorative borders.
