Cento Favole Morali (100 moral fables), Illustrations designed by Giovanni Maria Verdizotti, 1570

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Cento Favole Morali (100 moral fables), 1570, Printed book with woodcut illustrations, 8 7/16 x 6 5/16 x 11/16 in. ( x 16 x cm), Books, Illustrations designed by Giovanni Maria Verdizotti (Italian, Venice 1525–1600 Venice), The author of these rhyming fables, Verdizotti, is also identified in the publisher's preface as the designer of its illustrations, which he drew directly on the woodblock for the cutter. Apart from these woodcuts and one signed pen drawing not else can be securely attributed to Verdizotti, who is mentioned admiringly by Vasari, Ridolfi, and Dolci as an intimate friend and gifted student of Titian (and possibly his secretary after the death of Aretino

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