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Römische Historien is a 1538 German printed edition of Livy's history of Rome, printed in Mainz by Johann Schöffer for a readership of German-speaking readers. Its woodcuts show battle scenes with armoured soldiers, elephants carrying a wooden tower, and courtly and street scenes in Renaissance dress; a designer might take from them the dense crowded compositions, the pikes and spears massed across the frame, and the narrative panels divided by thin vertical rules.
