CARTARI, Vincenzo.

by Vincenzo Cartari

£1,950 · Offered by Sokol Books

A good copy of Cartari s richly illustrated encyclopaedia of classical iconography, containing fascinating appendixes concerning deities of the West and East Indies by the Italian priest and antiquarian Lorenzo Pignoria (1571-163). This edition is considered as the most complete (Brunet): it was revised and corrected from the previous of 1626, the blocks were recut, and it includes two new woodcuts of the creator god of the Egyptians (p. 81) and of three cupids (324). Vincenzo Cartari (c. 1531 after 1571) was an Italian mythographer and diplomat, author of the first modern translation of Ovid s fasti. Born at Reggio Emilia, Cartari lived and worked in the entourage of the Dukes of Este at Ferrara. Images of the gods is his masterpiece, and one of the most widely read handbooks of ancient mythology of the Renaissance. First published in 1556 without illustrations, this work went through at least 25 editions in different languages. The first illustrated edition appeared in 1571, with woodcuts by Bolognino Zaltieri. This edition contains a different set of woodcuts realised by Filippo Ferroverde under the direction of Pignoria for his 1615 edition. As the editor criticised Cartari for relying only on literary sources, he designed these new images to include reproductions of antiquarian objects, particularly intaglios, cameos, medals and reliefs. . Pignoria s appendixes to Cartari s work (first published in 1615 and 1624) are permeated by the new 17.th. century interest in collec

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