Ad perillustrem ac generosum D. D. Petrum Alzanum : patricium Bergomensem, equitem D. Marci splendidissimum, & Antenorei gymnasii iuris candidatorum rectorem digniss. In laurea I. V. suscipienda.
A Latin poem printed in Padua in 1592 by Laurentius Pasquati for the university's law graduates, written by Ettore De Iugis in honour of the Bergamo patrician Pietro Alzano on his graduation. The pictures are typographic ornaments: large decorated initial letters with foliage scrolls, a grotesque mask flanked by winged creatures, and small printers' devices. A designer could draw on the interlaced foliate capitals and the symmetrical grotesque cartouche as models for ornamental letterforms and decorative borders.
