Bartolomeo Platina delle vite de' pontefici: : dal Salvator nostro fino a Paolo II. accresciute con quelle de' Papi moderni da Sisto quarto fino ad Alessandro VII. regnante.
A 1666 Venetian printed edition of Bartolomeo Platina's lives of the popes, extended with later papal biographies by Onofrio Panvinio, Antonio Ciccarelli and Giovanni Stringa, issued by the Menafoglio press for a readership of church and scholarly buyers. Its small framed woodcut portraits of popes and churchmen, mostly bust-length with the sitter's name beneath, show how a designer can turn a set of similar head-and-shoulders figures into a consistent portrait series with varied expressions and dress.
