Roma trionfante
Roma trionfante is a 1549 Venetian printed book by Biondo Flavio (1392-1463) and Lucio Fauno, published by Michiele Tramezzino in Venice, and its pictures are a set of small woodcut decorated initial letters, here a large H framing a soldier with a helmet and a bearded or hooded figure with a shield. The initials are dense with hatched lines and crowded scenes, so a designer could take from them a model for compact, narrative letterforms in a sixteenth-century Italian woodcut style.
