Le pompe del Campidoglio per la sta. di N.S. Vrbano VIII. : quando pigliò possesso
A 1624 Italian account by Agostino Mascardi, printed in Rome by the heirs of Bartolomeo Zannetti, describing the ceremonies when Pope Urban VIII took possession of the Lateran basilica. The first picture is a large decorated initial A with two figures holding laurel sprigs and a central skull-and-foliage motif. The second is an initial L framing a perched eagle beside a grotesque figure amid scrolling foliage, and the title page shows putti holding a cartouche above a palace stair, a design a designer might borrow for ornamental capitals and framed title layouts.
