An ornamental woodcut headpiece featuring symmetrical scrolled foliage, floral motifs, and a central human face or mask.

TO HENRY III, MOST SERENE KING OF THE FRENCH and of the Poles, etc. Philotheus Giordano Bruno of Nola.

A large historiated decorative initial 'Q' containing a figure of a nude man standing amidst scrolling foliage.

Who is unaware (most sacred Majesty) that principal gifts are owed to principal men, greater gifts to those of higher rank, and the most principal gifts to the greatest? Therefore, let no one doubt why this work—considered among the greatest both for the nobility of the subject with which it deals, the uniqueness of the invention upon which it rests, and the weight of the demonstration by which it is shared—is