Les Vies des hommes illustres, grecs et romains, comparées l'une avec l'autre
Les Vies des hommes illustres is Jacques Amyot's 1567 French translation of Plutarch's parallel Lives, printed in Paris by Vascosan for a learned reading public. Its pictures are small woodcut decorations: an ornamental initial O, a repeated frieze of putti holding scrolling foliage and a grotesque mask, and a historiated-style initial D built from acanthus leaves, offering designers period borders, capitals and framing devices.
