Cremona fedelissima citta et nobilissima colonia de Romani : rappresentata in disegno col svo contado et illvstrata d'vna breve historia delle cose piv notabili appartenenti ad essa et de i ritratti natvrali de dvchi et dvchesse di Milano e compendio delle lor vite
Cremona fedelissima is a 1585 Italian city history of Cremona, printed in Cremona by Hippolito Tromba and Hercoliano Bartoli, with text by Antonio Campi, Agostino Carracci and David da Lodi. It was written for a readership interested in the city, its territory and the dukes of Milan. The pictures are printed text pages in a roman typeface, bordered by ornamental rules and wide framed panels with a few medallion portraits, and a designer might take from them the dense framed page layout and classical border ornament.
