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Petrarch's Famous Men in the Early Renaissance: The Illuminated Copies of Felice Feliciano's Edition (Paperback)
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Petrarch's Famous Men in the Early Renaissance: The Illuminated Copies of Felice Feliciano's Edition (Paperback)
Series: Warburg Institute Studies & Texts, 5
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Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304-1374) worked over many years on
his long historical text about the Lives of ancient Roman military
heroes, De viris illustribus (On Famous Men). Left unfinished at
his death, the text was completed by 1379 by Petrarch's colleague,
Lombardo della Seta. Within a decade, De viris illustribus was
translated into Italian; and in 1476 the Libro degli uomini famosi
was printed in Poiano outside of Verona by the eccentric humanist
and scribe, Felice Feliciano (1433-1479/1480). The edition includes
a peculiar feature: preceding each of the Lives is a page on which
is printed an interlace woodcut border within which, however, no
image appears. The present book surveys the hand-illumination of
twenty surviving copies of Felice's edition in order to
investigate: the Renaissance fascination with the classical past;
the artistic traditions of representing Uomini famosi; the
technical problems of illustrating books with woodcuts; and the
fortuna of the 1476 edition. Two copies contain sequences of heroes
painted within the woodcut borders; these heroes provide evidence
for reconstructing the appearance of the `lost' frescoes of famous
men painted at the end of Petrarch's lifetime in the Carrara palace
in Padua. The hand-illumination of other copies can be assigned to
miniaturists working in Venice, Verona, Ferrara, Florence, Rome and
elsewhere, suggesting Felice Feliciano's wide-reaching efforts to
market the volume. The importance of studying copy-specific
features in Renaissance printed books is further documented by the
thirty-two colour plates and over ninety black-and-white figures.
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