La magnifica et trivmphale entrata del Christianiss. re di Francia Henrico secondo di questo nome fatta nella nobile & antiqua Città di Lyone à luy & à la sua serenissima consorte Chaterina alli 21. di septemb. 1548 : colla particulare descritione della commedia che fece recitare la Natione Fiorentina a richiesta di sua Maesta Christianissima
This is a 1549 Italian-language account printed in Lyon by Guillaume Rouillé, describing Henry II of France's ceremonial entry into Lyon in 1548 and a Florentine community play staged for him, written for a French royal audience by Florentine and Lyonnais writers. The four pictures are decorated woodcut initials, each a large letter set in a square field of dense foliage, scrollwork and small flowers, with the letter drawn in white against a dark speckled ground. A designer could take from them a model for ornamental capitals that mix bold letterforms with busy vine and leaf borders.
