Caroli Sigonii Fasti consvlares ac triumphi acti à Romvlo rege vsqve ad Ti. Caesarem : eivsdem in fastos, et trivmphos, idest in vniversam romanam historiam commentarius : eiusdem de nominibus romanorum liber
A 1556 Venetian printed book by the Italian humanist Carlo Sigonio, issued by Paolo Manuzio's press, cataloguing Roman consuls, triumphs and personal names for scholars of Latin history. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, decorative capital letters with figures inset in the letter's bowl, such as a seated woman nursing a child beside a brick wall and a mounted rider in armour; a designer could borrow their compact framing, bold outlined letterforms and dense cross-hatched line for ornamental capitals.
