VERDIZOTTI (Giovanni Mario)
Cento favole morali de i piu illustri antichi & moderni autori Greci, & Latini.
Venice, Franceso Ziletti, 1586
VERDIZOTTI (Giovanni Mario)
Cento favole morali de i piu illustri antichi & moderni autori Greci, & Latini.
Venice, Franceso Ziletti, 1586
Third edition of Verdizotti’s collection of fables with striking, full-page woodcuts, which were, according to the preface, designed and cut by him.
First published in 1570, and secondly in 1577, the preface notes that Verdizotti was influenced by Gabriello Faerno’s Fabulae centum of 1563. Mortimer continues, “The Faerno engravings are said to be after Titian, and some of Verdizotti’s designs are also attributed to Titian. Verdizotti, as Titian’s friend and pupil, could have seen the Faerno series in preparation. Of the hundred fables, thirty-seven of Faerno’s subjects are not in Verdizotti. The texts rejected by Verdizotti deal chiefly with men and gods, and his additions tend to be animal fables … Where the same subjects are illustrated, less than half of Verdizotti’s woodcuts bear any resemblance to the Faerno engravings. Where there are any similarities, the position of an animal may be the same but the background obviously different, as though varied intentionally. It is not known whether the attribution to Titian rests on these small resemblances or on Verdizotti’s association with the artist”.
Some foxing and browning, outer margins thumbed in places. Small closed tear to outer margin of p.157, not touching text. Leaves T3 & T4 supplied.
Edit 16 CNCE 40750. BMSTC (Italian) p. 719. See: Mortimer no. 523 (1570 ed.).
