Pii secvndi pontificis max. Commentarii rerum memorabilium, quae temporibus suis contigerunt
This is a 1584 Roman edition of the commentaries of Pope Pius II, printed by Dominicus Basa and compiled with texts by Joannes Gobellinus and Jacopo Ammannati Piccolomini, aimed at readers of Church history. The pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each a large letter framing a bearded or robed figure with a staff, cross, or branch against a landscape with trees and towers, offering a designer compact models for decorative capitals and emblematic figure work.
