Large woodcut initials.

Includes poems in Italian or Latin (pp. 1-72, second sequence).

Illustrations: allegorical title page and eleven plates, some of them numbered. Four plates depict decorations designed by the architect Orazio Turriani: the colonnade on the Piazza della Spada in Rome, two plates of a triumphal arch, and a fountain structured as a nymphaea. Seven plates depict temporary structures used for fireworks display, including 2 states of plate numbered "70" or "02". The plates are etched by Luca Ciamberlano after Niccolò Tornioli.

L'effimero barocco, I, 99-104

Berlin. Ornamentstichsammlung, 3046

Binding: contemporary full vellum. Library's copy 1 has green morocco spine label, lettered in gilt, library's copy 2 has title manuscript on spine by old hand.

Library's copy 2 is bound without the front fly-leaf.

Library's copy 1 does not include the plate depicting a section of the triumphal arch.

In library's copy 2 the plate depicting the triumphal arch has the left right corner cut with loss to the signature of Luca Ciamberlano (monogram LC. F.).