Sommario delle vite de' dvchi di Milano, cosi Visconti, come Sforzeschi
A 1584 Venetian printed book, the Sommario delle vite de' dvchi di Milano, published by Francesco Ziletti and written by Scipione Barbuò Soncino with engravings by Girolamo Porro, presenting the lives of the Visconti and Sforza dukes of Milan. Each plate shows a duke standing in an architectural niche framed by pilasters, pediments and scrollwork, with a title cartouche above and a small relief panel below. A designer could draw on the symmetrical Renaissance frames, classical columns and armoured figures as a model for ornamental title pages.
