Matronarum Veronensium ob vetitas pompas moerentium
A Latin poetry book by Giovanni Balcianelli, printed in Verona in 1590 by Girolamo Discepolo, concerning sumptuary laws on parades and processions in Verona. The single picture is a woodcut title border: an oval cartouche framing a winged putto who reaches up toward a cloud-borne figure, flanked by two caryatid-like female figures and a grotesque mask below, with a band of lettering around the oval. A designer could take from it the symmetrical framing of an oval medallion with strapwork, figures and a mask, a structure useful for decorative title pages.
