Fabulae centum ex antiquis auctoribus delectae et a Gabriele Faerno cremonensi carminibus explicatae

Title

en_US Fabulae centum ex antiquis auctoribus delectae et a Gabriele Faerno cremonensi carminibus explicatae

Description

en_US Language note: Latin

Gabriel Faerno

Creator

en_US Faerno, Gabriel See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Ligorio, Pirro

Date

2022-11-07T16:11:46Z

2021-07

en_US 2019

Date Available

2022-11-07T16:11:46Z

Date Issued

en_US 2019

Abstract

en_US Very good copy of the 1564 original. Bodemann mentions dates of both 1563 and 1565, but the image of the cover in Bodemann is exactly the same as the image on this paperback. The high quality of this copy is unusual in my experience of recent reprints. I am especially happy to get this copy to match with our three Faerno books: Italian (1736); English/French (3 copies; 1741); and Latin/French (1744). Latin verse on right-hand pages, one to a fable, with the accompanying illustration on the left. The illustrations are rather dark. As Bodemann notes, the central figures regularly fill out much of the image. Not much attention is given to background. The illustrations seem to me to be vintage Renaissance material, including frequent naked bodies. "Asini Duo" (5) gives a good idea of the combination of realism and a kind of "expressionism" at work in these illustrations. The river in this illustration reminds one of elements of Edward Munch. Almost all of these Latin poems handle identifiable Aesopic fables. Plantin did an edition in 1567; that was apparently the next. Faerno was a protégé of Charles Borromeo and Borromeo's uncle, Pope Pius IV.

Identifier

en_US cf. 33

en_US 12617 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/138815

Language

en_US lat

Publisher

en_US Vincentius Luchinus

en_US Rome

Subject

Faerno See all items with this value