Aesop's Fables With a Life of Aesop

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables With a Life of Aesop

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Original language: spa

en_US First edition?

en_US John E. Keller and L. Clark Keating

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Hurus, Jan

Date

2016-01-25T16:07:58Z

en_US 1993-08

en_US 1993

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:07:58Z

Date Issued

en_US 1993

Abstract

en_US An excellent book and a valuable resource. A good introduction leads up to placing Hurus' book in history. Good comments on the history and traditions. Rinuccio translated Planudes from Greek into Latin in about 1450. Steinhöwel followed Rinuccio's order (eight books with about twenty fables in each book). So did this edition follow Rinuccio, and so it is not a translation of Steinhöwel's German; it is a translation of Rinuccio's Latin. This may be the most helpful resource I have on Planudes' and Steinhöwel's work. The illustrations are copies of the Ulm/Augsburg woodcuts. Books 5 and 8 are largely new to me. Some differences from traditional fable versions: the jewel in the first fable is this book (53), as it will be in Caxton's interpretation. The fox finds not a mask but a statue (83); the hands and feet starved the belly too long, and the man died (103); the vulture invites birds to his birthday party (117); the lion takes the man to the amphitheater and shows him who wins by fighting him; and the wolf separates and destroys four oxen (184). T of C at the beginning and an AI on 237.

Identifier

en_US 0813118123 (recycled, acid-free paper)

en_US 1877 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77443

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The University Press of Kentucky

en_US Lexington

Subject

en_US PQ6498.V2913 1993

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole