Fabulae centum ex antiquis auctoribus delectae et a Gabriele Faerno cremonensi carminibus explicatae
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Faerno, Gabriel
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2019
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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.
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Vincentius Luchinus
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