Ritratti et elogii di capitani illustri : che ne' secoli moderni hanno gloriosamente guerreggiato.
A 1647 Roman book of engraved portrait busts with short verse elogies of illustrious modern military captains, published in Rome by Filippo de' Rossi at the Mascardi press for a general audience of readers interested in warfare and biography. The pictures are small, tightly cropped profile busts in fine parallel-line engraving, each with a heraldic shield and a caption, showing armour, helmets, and hats. A designer might take the disciplined hatching for tonal shading, and the armour details as reference for period costume.
