The Medici Aesop

Title

en_US The Medici Aesop

Description

en_US Language note: Bilingual: Greek/English

en_US Translated from the Greek by Bernard McTigue

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US di Giovanni, Gherardo

en_US Fahy, Everett (Introduction)

Date

2016-01-25T19:55:13Z

en_US 2008-08

en_US 2005

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:55:13Z

Date Issued

en_US 1488?

Abstract

en_US This book was published in a hardbound version by Harry N. Abrams in 1989. The lovely illustrations remain as precisely rendered here as there. In a curious move, Adele Westbrook, editor of the hardbound version, is not even mentioned here. Let me repeat my comments from that book. What a treasure! A good introduction gives a concise history of Aesop, the text of the fables, and the illustrations. This hand-written and hand-painted manuscript was done from a printed book, Bono Accurzio's 1480 version of Planudes' 1310 text. The versions are surprisingly concise and witty. Several morals wander into generalities. Well told: The Old Woman and the Doctor (44). Differently told: The Eagle and the Fox (20). The illustrations are magnificent but small. They often read from right to left. Some excellent illustrations: The Fox and the Mask (33), The Broken Vow (40), The Thieving Child and His Mother (71), OF (105), The Ant-Man (131), The Thirsty Dove (143). The boar sharpens his tusks on a whetting stone (78)! AD (64) story has a net, while its illustration has a bow.

Identifier

en_US 9780871044549 (pbk. : alk. paper)

en_US 6570 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81891

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The New York Public Library

en_US NY

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 M33 2005

en_US Aesop

Type

en_US Book, Whole