Di Ovidio Le metamorphosi, cioe, Trasmutationi : tradotte dal latino diligentemente in uolgar uerso, con le sue allegorie, significatione & dichiaratione delle fabole in prosa
A 1533 Venetian printing of Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated into Italian verse by Niccolò degli Agostini with prose allegories, published by Nicolo di Aristotile called Zoppino for a general Italian reading public. Its woodcuts show mythological transformations in a plain engraved style: figures among dense leafy trees, a sea scene with figures on a shore, and a chariot pulled by a winged creature beside a bedchamber. Designers can take the compact framed vignettes, crisp black line work and clear narrative staging as models for storytelling in small panels.
