Descrizione dell'essequie di Papa Lione XI : celebrate nel Duomo di Firenze da' signori operai, d'ordine del serenissimo gran duca
A 1605 Florentine printed account by Camillo Rinuccini describing the funeral of Pope Leo XI, produced at the Sermartelli press in Florence for the Grand Duke's court and the cathedral works officers. The two pictures are woodcut decorations: a large ornamental initial P filled with grotesque foliage and figures, and a papal coat of arms with crossed keys, a tiara and two winged putti. A designer could draw on the dense, hatched line work and the heraldic symmetry of the crest for ornamental borders and emblematic panels.
