Fedro Favole

Title

en_US Fedro Favole

Description

en_US Language note: Italian

en_US Boxed

Albertomario del Bianco

Creator

en_US Del Bianco, Albertomario

Contributor

en_US Bertoletti, Giulio

Date

2022-11-07T16:11:52Z

2021-06

en_US 1953

Date Available

2022-11-07T16:11:52Z

Date Issued

en_US 1953

Abstract

en_US By being attentive on Ebay, one sometimes finds real bargains. Here is one of those large format (8¾” x almost 12”) books done in the years soon after WWII that are conceived and executed in the “grand style.” The book is big, boxed, and with an embossed cover and spine. I am surprised that I have not run into Bertoletti’s work earlier. Here ELI presents 16 of Phaedrus’ fables with 16 full-page illustrations, unbacked except for a one-line excerpt from the prose versions offering a focus. These illustrations alternate between fully-colored and black-and-white. There is both a T of C and a table of illustrations at the end. Bertoletti tends to focus on one animal in an encounter. For example, we see the goat looking down into the well without seeing the fox already in the well (25). This issue recurs in FK (65). At other times, we see the crucial confrontation of a fable, e.g., in WL (31) but may wonder why this exquisite scene is rendered only in black-and-white. One may wonder why the dramatic encounter of horse and boar – often presented elsewhere as “The Horse and the Stag” – shows a squirrel with the horse. I have seldom seen as good an illustration of “The Clown and the Pig” (59). The most dramatic of the illustrations may be “Il Dottore Ciabattino” (89). I had forgotten “The Rich and Poor Suitors,” and so I particularly enjoyed the illustration, perhaps the best of those in black-and-white (115).

Identifier

en_US 12681 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/138868

Language

en_US ita

Publisher

en_US Edizioni Librarie Italiane

en_US Milan, Italy

Subject

Phaedrus