In obitvm illvstriss. ac reverendissimi Alexandri Farnesii, Sancte Rom. Ecclesiae Cardinalis amplissimi Herculiani Monicij presb. parmen. oratio
A funeral oration printed in Parma in 1589 by Herculianus Monicius for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, a Latin text commemorating a churchman and aimed at scholars and clergy. Its woodcut pictures are decorative headpieces and initials: a bearded face flanked by two satyr-like figures, an emblematic framed scene of a stag beside a stream under clouds, a winged griffin-like creature forming a large initial, and a classical couple with a centaur in a roundel. A designer might take the dense, fluent line work, the framed cartouches and the strong figural borders as models for ornament.
