Boccaccio chose famous not necessarily virtuous women To write
about & has not included saints . He includes women from
mythology, legend & history, ending - his contemporary Joanna, Queen of Siciliy & Jerusalemfounder of Rom
The tale of Aeneas , The legendary founder of Rome, how he
fled from the sack of Troy , found refuge - Dido at Carthage &
eventually came to conquer & settle in Rome.
- the brothers learned the new craft of printing in Strassburg . Teacher : J Mentelin
Gunther - 1st dated book Augsburg - March 12, 1468 . 1472 Johann
moved to Ulm from Augsburg.
H. Steinhowel ( b. 1412 in Weil der Stadt - died 1478) 1450 qppointed
city physician Ulm , a position he kept all his life.
The beginnings of J. Zainer were completely dominated by his
1st author & patron , Steinhowel.
- 2 key works of Ulm book ill ustration : the Latin Boccaccio &
Griseldis.
The series of richly illust. books which Zainer produced
during the 1st 5 years of his activity at Ulm & which amounts
to a whole humanistic program is probably without
exception the result of Steinhowel's initiative.
- another strong influence that shaped Zainer's printing
program - came from the Dominican monastery.
Until the early 80's the texts chosen for publication
by the Dominicans were exclusively printed by J. Zainer.
- then he was replaced by * Dinckmut . Dinckmut's
rise parallels Zainer's decline. J. Zainer overextended
himself financially in the years 1480 -2.
father - 1473 - 1493 total output 170-180 ed.
son (Hans) 1496 - 1519 * See 67, 166 , 213
#66 Bibliothek Otto Schafer - Die grosse Bordure und die 81
Holzschnitte von 79 Stocken stammen von Weils Boccaccio -
Meister.
One of the very earliets of all such picture books - it is practically the
1st to show the German wood engravers as a fully competent artist -
most of all it is memorable because it is the 1st book to bring graphic
representations of antique subjects before a very wide public all over Europe
ie Cleopatra & the Asp , Rape of Lucrece, Europa & the Bull.
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