Primera[-segunda] decada de las guerras de Flandes ...

Strada, Famiano, 1572-1649, Novar, Melchior de, 1629-1707, Dondini, Guglielmo, 1606-1678. Historia de rebus in Gallia, gestis ab Alexandro Farnesio. Spanish, Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708, Ledesma, Juan de, 17th cent · 1681 · En Colonia : [s.n.] · 44 pictures

This is a 1681 Spanish-language history of the Dutch Revolt wars in Flanders, printed in Cologne (Colonia) and translated from Famiano Strada's Latin account of Alessandro Farnese's campaigns. The record gives no illustrator, so the pictures are the printer's ornament: large decorated initial letters H and D with floral scrollwork, and a symmetrical scrolled headpiece with dolphin-like curls and rosettes. A designer could take from them the dense, filled-letter approach of seventeenth-century printed ornament for display capitals and framed panels.

Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma, 1545-1592

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