Liberale: Ritrovata nell'Esopo Veronese del 1479

Title

en_US Liberale: Ritrovata nell'Esopo Veronese del 1479

Description

en_US Language note: Italian

en_US Testo di Giovanni Mardersteig

Creator

en_US Mardersteig, Giovanni See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Magagnato, Licisco (Introduction)

Date

2016-01-25T19:03:13Z

en_US 2001-08

en_US 1973

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:03:13Z

Date Issued

en_US 1973

Abstract

en_US I got very lucky as I ducked into an unlikely shop featuring mostly new books and publishers' remainders. A bookcase of older and used books included two treasures. (The other is a limited edition translated by Ian Warren and illustrated by Hellmuth Weissenborn from 1982). On the cover is a beautifully colored presentation of WC from the 1479 Verona Aesop published by Giovanni Alvise that uses the text of Accio Zucco. I believe that Mardersteig's discovery, celebrated in the festivities of December 22, 1973 that occasioned this booklet, is that a person named Liberale of Verona was the artist for the illustrations in this edition. The booklet has some 32 pages of text on Liberale and this edition. It also has twenty-six illustrations of various sizes. One of the best (#6) is again from the 1479 Verona Aesop. Like the cover's illustration, this depiction of Il cappone e lo sparviero is a water-colored woodcut from the British Museum copy of this lovely work. At least that is what I take a xilografia acquerellata to be! Other illustrations show other works of Liberale, 1479 Verona woodcuts without coloring, and woodcuts of subsequent editions derivative from these. See the description I give of my copy of the 1973 Officina Bodoni republication of the 1479 Verona Aesop discussed here. That Officina Bodoni work is referred to regularly in this booklet.

Identifier

en_US 4246 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79522

Language

en_US ita

Publisher

en_US Museo di Castelvecchio di Verona

en_US Verona

Subject

en_US NE1152.5.L52 M37 1973 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole