Iacobi Philippi Tomasini patauini episcopi aemoniensis Elogia virorum literis & sapientia illustrium ad viuum expressis imaginibus exornata
A 1644 Padua illustrated book of biographies by Giacomo Filippo Tomasini, a bishop, honouring learned and wise Italian men, with portraits engraved by Johann Friedrich Greuter for a scholarly readership. The pictures are oval and rectangular engraved portrait medallions set in ornate cartouches with Latin captions, plus woodcut-style historiated initials with foliage and birds, offering designers models for framed portrait plaques, decorative capitals and classical lettering borders.
