Descrizione dell' entrata della sereniss. reina Giouanna d'Austria et dell'apparato, fatto in Firenze nella venuta, & per le felicissime nozze di S. Altezza et dell' illustrissimo & eccellentiss. S. Don Francesco de Medici, prencipe di Fiorenza, & di Siena
Descrizione is a 1566 Italian account of the entry into Florence of Giovanna of Austria and the festivities for the wedding of Francesco de' Medici, published in Florence by the Giunti press and written by Domenico Mellini. The four pictures are woodcut ornaments: a historiated initial H with angels, a historiated initial showing two embracing women beside a fountain-like scene, a fleur-de-lis cartouche flanked by putti, and a strip of foliage and scrollwork. A designer could take from them the dense, layered grammar of Renaissance woodcut borders, initials and cartouches for festival print work.
