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Cento favole morali

Illustrated by: Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
Circle Of: Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian (Venetian), about 1488–1576)
Author: Giovanni Mario Verdizotti (Italian, 1525–1600)
Printer: Giordano Ziletti (Italian, active 1549–1583)
Italian (Venice)
1570
Place of Publication: Venice, Italy

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with 100 woodcuts
Dimensions Overall: 19.6 x 14.7 x 2 cm (7 11/16 x 5 13/16 x 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number64.393
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Venice: Giordano Ziletti, 1570

Catalogue Raisonné Brunet V, 1130-31; Mortimer, Italian, 523
Description(Venice: Giordano Ziletti, 1570) Quarto; 156 leaves; nineteenth-century gilt-stamped brown morocco (Binda, Milan).

Illustrations: portrait of astrologer (fol. a6v); one hundred illustrations of fables (e.g., Eagle and Fox, p. 16; Mule, p. 28, etc.)
ProvenanceCharles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919); Leo S. Olschki, Florence; W.G. Russell Allen, Boston (1882-1955), by whom bequeathed to MFA, April 8, 1964.