Vita Ignatii Loiolae, Societatis Iesu fundatoris, : libris quinque comprehensa : in quibus initia ipsius Societatis, ad annum usq[ue] Domini 1556. explicantur.

Ribadeneyra, Pedro de, 1527-1611 · 1572 · Neapoli : Apud Iosephum Cacchium. · 14 pictures

Vita Ignatii Loiolae is a 1572 Latin biography of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, written by Pedro de Ribadeneyra and printed in Naples by Iosephus Cacchius for a Jesuit and clerical readership. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, one for each opening word, with a dark block-cut letter, a figure, and a grotesque or foliate border that a designer could adapt for a decorative drop cap or a monogram panel.

Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint, 1491-1556

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