Apparato della festività del glorioso S. Giouan Battista : fatto dal fedelissimo popolo napolitano à 23. di giugno 1624, all' Eccellenza del signor d. Antonio Alvarez di Toledo, duca d'Alba, vicere nel regno
A 1624 Neapolitan festival book by Giulio Cesare Capaccio, printed in Naples by Gio. Domenico Roncagliolo, describing the feast of St John the Baptist given by the Neapolitan people for the Duke of Alba, viceroy. The four pictures are a large woodcut initial C, a woodcut initial F with foliage, an engraved coat of arms with banners and a checkered shield, and an engraved figure of John the Baptist with a lamb and staff beside a Latin inscription. A designer could draw on the dense flourished woodcut borders and the heraldic checkerboard for ornament.



