Vita B. Ieannis Chisii Senensis Ordinis Erem. Sancti P. Augustini ..
A 1656 Latin devotional life of the Sienese hermit Blessed Giovanni Chisi, printed in Rome by Typis F. Caballi and written by Raimondo Capisucchi and Nicephorus Sebastus for an Augustinian hermit readership. Its woodcut ornaments are crude, bold, and heavily inked, showing a flower vase with spreading blossoms and a grotesque mask set among acanthus-like leaves, which suggest simple stamped border or headpiece motifs for a designer working in an early baroque, folk-printed vein.











