Ampla et diligente relatione de gli honori fatti al cuore di San Carlo : per lettera scritta all'illustrissimo sig. conte Carlo Borromeo, nipote del santo
A 1614 Roman printed account, published by Bartolomeo Zannetti, of the honours paid to the heart of Saint Charles Borromeo, written as a letter to his nephew Count Carlo Borromeo by Patritio Fattorio, with engravings by Giacomo Lauro and Andrea Baiano. The pictures are small black-and-white woodcut and engraved ornaments: a cartouche with cherubs and a flaming heart emblem, a decorated initial N with a winged figure, a bust portrait of a churchman in an oval frame, and a historiated initial I with grotesque animals. A designer could take from them the dense, symmetrical scrollwork and emblematic framing typical of early modern devotional print.





