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Fior di Vertu historiato. Venice: Giovanni Padovano, April 1542.
8° (146 x 97mm). Large woodcut on title of Brother Cherubino and a nimbed putto in a garden, the latter holding a basket of plants, 34 small woodcuts in the text. (Slight worming in the first 3 and last 2 leaves affects a few letters, light discolouration, margins cut quite close.) Early 19th-century roan-backed boards.
A late edition of this extraordinarily popular little work derived from classical and mediaeval sources, with a few novelle intermixed with the general maxims and the lives of the animals which are portrayed by the 34 woodcuts. It was probably written at Bologna towards the end of the thirteenth century by Tommaso Gozzadini. The charming colophon (on the verso of the title) proclaims the work to have been written 'Con charta buona & con inchiostro fino'. Sander 2758 (note).
8° (146 x 97mm). Large woodcut on title of Brother Cherubino and a nimbed putto in a garden, the latter holding a basket of plants, 34 small woodcuts in the text. (Slight worming in the first 3 and last 2 leaves affects a few letters, light discolouration, margins cut quite close.) Early 19th-century roan-backed boards.
A late edition of this extraordinarily popular little work derived from classical and mediaeval sources, with a few novelle intermixed with the general maxims and the lives of the animals which are portrayed by the 34 woodcuts. It was probably written at Bologna towards the end of the thirteenth century by Tommaso Gozzadini. The charming colophon (on the verso of the title) proclaims the work to have been written 'Con charta buona & con inchiostro fino'. Sander 2758 (note).