Prontvario de le medaglie de piv illvstri, & fulgenti huomini & donne, dal pricipio del mondo insino al presente tempo..
A 1553 Italian portrait book by Guillaume Rouillé, published in Lyon, collecting imagined medallion likenesses of famous men and women from antiquity onward. Its woodcut roundels show profile busts of rulers and scholars, each ringed by Latin or Italian inscriptions, which a designer might borrow for coin-style emblems, period badges, or inscribed circular frames.
