Le vite de pontefici
Le vite de pontefici is a 1588 Roman book of papal portraits by Antonio Ciccarelli and Giovanni Battista Cavalieri, printed by Domenico Basa for a general readership interested in church history. Its pictures are small engraved bust portraits of popes set within ornate framed borders, each captioned with a name and number, offering a designer examples of compact framed portrait layouts and decorative interlace or scroll borders.
