Relatione del viaggio et arrivo in Evropa et Roma de' principi giapponesi : venutià dare obedienza à Sua Santità l'anno MDLXXXV all'Eccell. Sig. Girolamo Mercvriale
This 1585 Venetian pamphlet, printed by Paolo Meietto, is a relation of the voyage of Japanese noble envoys to Europe and Rome, written for the physician Girolamo Mercuriale and recounting their audience with Pope Gregory XIII. The single picture is a woodcut cartouche with a decorative scroll frame, flanking figures, and a central scene of two roosters and a plant, with a Latin motto beneath; a designer could draw on its dense strapwork, framing devices, and emblematic animal imagery.
