Il morte del serenissimo principe Francesco di Toscana
This is a 1634 Florentine printed funeral book by Ferdinando Bardi, Count of Vernio, published by Zanobi Pignoni, commemorating the death of Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, for a courtly and civic readership. The pictures are small black-and-white woodcut and engraved ornaments: a dense scrolling frieze, a historiated initial with two figures at work in a workshop, and an engraved heraldic cartouche with a crown, mantling and five roundels, offering designers period ornament, border and armorial motifs.
