Chosi falsa speranza ne martelia, non lassar mai lo certo per lo incerto, se non che del tuo proprio fie diserto

Aesop, Anonymus Neveleti, Zucco, Accio, Bonini, Bonino, approximately 1450-1528, printer, Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958, former owner, Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) · 1487 · [Brescia, Italy : Bonino Bonini, ca. 1487] · 50 pictures

This is an incunable fable collection of Aesop's fables in Latin and Italian, printed in Brescia around 1487 by Bonino Bonini for a general reading public. Its small woodcut vignettes, each framed and set above a block of text, show animals and figures in simple outdoor scenes, offering a designer clear models for compact framed illustration and early woodcut line work.

Brescia · Fables, Greek · Fables, Latin · Incunabula · Italy · Translations into italian · Translations into latin

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