Orazione funerale
A 1564 Florentine funeral oration by Benedetto Varchi, printed by the Giunta family at Florence, honouring Michelangelo Buonarroti. The pictures are woodcut printers' ornaments: a large decorative initial D showing two grotesque figures wrestling beside a tree, an oval cartouche with a fleur-de-lis flanked by putti, and a coat of arms with five balls held by two cherubs. A designer might take from them the dense, carved line of Renaissance woodcut borders, framed initials, and heraldic cartouches.
