G: Esopo - Favole Esopiane - 1782
BELLA REMONDINIANA ILLUSTRATED: AESOP'S FABLES IN ITALIAN TRANSLATION
Figurative frontispiece and 9 engravings between endcaps and headpieces.
The Remondinis were a family of printers who operated in Bassano del Grappa from the mid-17th to the mid-19th century. He began with woodcuts of saints and popular subjects, which farmers purchased to protect their homes. From that first press originated one of the most important copperplate engravings in Europe.
Between 1735 and 1739 Giuseppe Remondini (1700-1769) developed the Remondini printing house which also produced other typologies such as wallpaper and many series of small prints to be glued onto furniture, to obtain the typical eighteenth-century Venetian decorations known as lacca povera or poor art.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Remondini printing house had 18 presses for typographical and xylographic impressions, 24 for copper engravings, equipment for printing special papers and wallpapers, 4 paper mills and a foundry for lead characters. Overall they employed over 1,000 workers.
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Aesop is considered the initiator of the fable as a written literary form. The Fables (Ancient Greek: Aἰσώπου μῦθοι?) are a collection of moral fables written by Aesop in the 6th century BC. At the end, each fable has a joke or a moral, designed to educate children about the values of life, to behave in the right direction and to avoid danger and bad actions. Various metaphors and transformations are used in the fairy tales to represent everyday life in Greece. Aesop's fortune was in fact taken up by Phaedrus and then by Hyginus.
"Aesop's Fables" (in Greek: Aἰσώπου μῦθοι) means the collection of 358 fables contained in the critical edition edited by Émile Chambry, probably consisting of a primary nucleus of fables to which, over the centuries, others have been added others of various origins. Aesop's fables can be described as archetypal; the very current definition of "fable" is based primarily on the Aesopian fable. These are short poems, generally with characters who are personified animals, with the explicit purpose of communicating a moral.
Many of these fables are so famous that they have acquired the role of proverb in modern culture; some examples are The Fox and the Grapes, The Grasshopper and the Ant, Wolf! Goodbye! , The North and the Sun and The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs. Many were also adapted by great fairy tale writers (for example Phaedrus or Jean de La Fontaine) .
Aesop's fables also became proverbial in medieval times, when the originals were no longer known, with the vulgarisations in French called Isopet (whose name clearly derives from Aesop) or with the vulgar Aesop in Italian. Aesop's fables have primarily a didactic and educational purpose; it is no coincidence that at the end of each composition there is the famous expression Ὁ μῦθος δηλοῖ ὅτι (or mythos deloi oti: "the fable teaches that") . This means that, in narratives, we continually witness situations inspired by practical teaching especially with a background of moral deterrent which is reflected in the emotionality of the characters. Aesop's exempla are masterful in their smallness, in fact they reflect, in elementary situations, all the characteristics of real life.
Deception, truth, appearance, foolishness and cunning: these are emotions frequently exposed in Aesop, but all in correlation with the final morality, with an educational purpose. At the end of the 17th century, the educational value of Aesop's fables pushed the King of France, Louis
The fables attributed to Aesop, an ancient Greek writer who lived in the 6th century BC, consist of the narration of archetypal episodes, whose protagonists are most often animals, but there are also plants, men (identified mostly for their profession: fisherman, shepherd, woodcutter etc.) . The short stories are characterized by simple and spontaneous language. In the gloss of every fairy tale there is never a lack of a common and popular moral. Even today, peoples who have preserved the tradition of passing down their knowledge and laws in oral form, such as the Roma or the Rudari, make use of fairy tales to educate young people. Aesop's fables were subsequently reworked or imitated by Greek and Latin authors.
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Percalline binding with part of ancient antiphonary applied to the spine. The internal pages of the book show no particular signs of wear or stains, some foxing. Possession stamp on the frontis. Good state of maintenance of the work. Nice complete copy, clean and tidy. pp. (2) ; 273; 6nn.
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Aesopian Fables by Count and Abbot Giambatista Roberti with a didactic speech.
In Bassano: at the expense of Remondini of Venice, 1782.
Giambatista Roberti/Aesop
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BELLA REMONDINIANA ILLUSTRATED: AESOP'S FABLES IN ITALIAN TRANSLATION
Figurative frontispiece and 9 engravings between endcaps and headpieces.
The Remondinis were a family of printers who operated in Bassano del Grappa from the mid-17th to the mid-19th century. He began with woodcuts of saints and popular subjects, which farmers purchased to protect their homes. From that first press originated one of the most important copperplate engravings in Europe.
Between 1735 and 1739 Giuseppe Remondini (1700-1769) developed the Remondini printing house which also produced other typologies such as wallpaper and many series of small prints to be glued onto furniture, to obtain the typical eighteenth-century Venetian decorations known as lacca povera or poor art.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Remondini printing house had 18 presses for typographical and xylographic impressions, 24 for copper engravings, equipment for printing special papers and wallpapers, 4 paper mills and a foundry for lead characters. Overall they employed over 1,000 workers.
CONTENTS
Aesop is considered the initiator of the fable as a written literary form. The Fables (Ancient Greek: Aἰσώπου μῦθοι?) are a collection of moral fables written by Aesop in the 6th century BC. At the end, each fable has a joke or a moral, designed to educate children about the values of life, to behave in the right direction and to avoid danger and bad actions. Various metaphors and transformations are used in the fairy tales to represent everyday life in Greece. Aesop's fortune was in fact taken up by Phaedrus and then by Hyginus.
"Aesop's Fables" (in Greek: Aἰσώπου μῦθοι) means the collection of 358 fables contained in the critical edition edited by Émile Chambry, probably consisting of a primary nucleus of fables to which, over the centuries, others have been added others of various origins. Aesop's fables can be described as archetypal; the very current definition of "fable" is based primarily on the Aesopian fable. These are short poems, generally with characters who are personified animals, with the explicit purpose of communicating a moral.
Many of these fables are so famous that they have acquired the role of proverb in modern culture; some examples are The Fox and the Grapes, The Grasshopper and the Ant, Wolf! Goodbye! , The North and the Sun and The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs. Many were also adapted by great fairy tale writers (for example Phaedrus or Jean de La Fontaine) .
Aesop's fables also became proverbial in medieval times, when the originals were no longer known, with the vulgarisations in French called Isopet (whose name clearly derives from Aesop) or with the vulgar Aesop in Italian. Aesop's fables have primarily a didactic and educational purpose; it is no coincidence that at the end of each composition there is the famous expression Ὁ μῦθος δηλοῖ ὅτι (or mythos deloi oti: "the fable teaches that") . This means that, in narratives, we continually witness situations inspired by practical teaching especially with a background of moral deterrent which is reflected in the emotionality of the characters. Aesop's exempla are masterful in their smallness, in fact they reflect, in elementary situations, all the characteristics of real life.
Deception, truth, appearance, foolishness and cunning: these are emotions frequently exposed in Aesop, but all in correlation with the final morality, with an educational purpose. At the end of the 17th century, the educational value of Aesop's fables pushed the King of France, Louis
The fables attributed to Aesop, an ancient Greek writer who lived in the 6th century BC, consist of the narration of archetypal episodes, whose protagonists are most often animals, but there are also plants, men (identified mostly for their profession: fisherman, shepherd, woodcutter etc.) . The short stories are characterized by simple and spontaneous language. In the gloss of every fairy tale there is never a lack of a common and popular moral. Even today, peoples who have preserved the tradition of passing down their knowledge and laws in oral form, such as the Roma or the Rudari, make use of fairy tales to educate young people. Aesop's fables were subsequently reworked or imitated by Greek and Latin authors.
CONDITION REPORT
Percalline binding with part of ancient antiphonary applied to the spine. The internal pages of the book show no particular signs of wear or stains, some foxing. Possession stamp on the frontis. Good state of maintenance of the work. Nice complete copy, clean and tidy. pp. (2) ; 273; 6nn.
FULL TITLES & AUTHORS
Aesopian Fables by Count and Abbot Giambatista Roberti with a didactic speech.
In Bassano: at the expense of Remondini of Venice, 1782.
Giambatista Roberti/Aesop
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