Corona di dodici sonetti fatta in morte di don Filippo il Secondo d'Austria rè di Spagna
A 1601 Italian sonnet sequence printed in Chieti by Isidoro Facij, written by Salvatore Massonio and Mutio Pansa as a funeral tribute to Philip II of Spain. The four pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, the large capitals I, P, O and S, each framed with a small scene or ornament. A designer could draw on their bold black-and-white carved contrast and the way figures and foliage are packed into square letterforms.
