Baptistae Gvarini ivn. oratio in fvnere invictiss. Imperat. Maximiliani II. Caes. Avg
A Latin funeral oration printed in Ferrara in 1577 by Battista Guarini, honouring the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II, and aimed at a learned humanist readership. Its pictures are small woodcut ornaments: a heraldic shield with crown and scrollwork, two near-identical grotesque masks framed in cartouches, and a historiated initial S showing figures in a landscape, useful to a designer seeking period decorative borders and initials.
