Historia di Mexico, et quando si discoperse la nuoua Hispagne, conquistata per illustriss. et ualoroso principe. don Ferdinando Cortese marchese del Valle.
A 1556 Italian printing of López de Gómara's history of Mexico and the Spanish conquest led by Hernán Cortés, published in Rome by the Dorici brothers. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each a letter enclosing a scene of Spanish soldiers and Mexican figures in combat or travel, with type set beside them. A designer could take from them the compact, narrative capital-letter device used to open chapters in sixteenth-century Italian print.
