Historia di don Ferdinando Cortes, e marchese della Valle, capitan valorosissimo, con le sue maravigliose prodezze nel tempo, che discopri, & acquisto la Nuoua Spagna. Parte terza.
An Italian translation of López de Gómara's account of Hernán Cortés's conquest of New Spain, printed in Venice in 1560 by Francesco Lorenzini and issued for an Italian reading public. The small woodcut vignettes show knights and horsemen in armour, a hermit or saint in a wooded landscape, and a figure with a dragon-like beast, set among printed text. For a designer, they offer compact, expressive black-and-white figure groupings with dense hatching and strong silhouettes suited to emblematic or narrative images.
