De Statibvs Franciae, illorvmqve potestate, epitome.
A Latin treatise on the estates of France and their powers, printed in Paris in 1578 by Denys Du Val and written by Matteo Zampini, a 16th-century figure, for scholars and officials interested in the 1576 Estates General. The three pictures are woodcut ornaments: a decorative capital D within a scrolled frame, an angular cross-shaped fleuron of interlaced spirals, and a fruit-garland border with a bearded mask flanked by two winged putti, offering designers ready-made Renaissance ornament for frames, initials and borders.
