Descrizione delle feste fatte nelle reali nozze de' Serenissimi principi di Toscana d. Cosimo de' Medici, e Maria Maddalena arcidvchessa d'Avstria
A 1608 Florentine account of the festivities for the wedding of Cosimo de' Medici and Maria Maddalena of Austria, published in Florence by the Giunti press and written by Camillo Rinuccini with engravings by Mathieu Greuter. The pictures are black-and-white engraved panoramas showing processions of carriages and horsemen along city streets, crowded spectators on balconies, a harbour full of ships with a naval mock battle, and a bridge with staged combat, arranged in long horizontal strips with Italian captions. A designer might take from them the dense, orderly crowd layouts and the compressed panoramic format used for pageant views.
