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Birth customs --- Childbirth --- Renaissance --- Women --- 7.04 <45> --- 7.04 <45> Iconografie. Iconologie. Onderwerpen van kunstzinnige uitbeelding--Italië --- Iconografie. Iconologie. Onderwerpen van kunstzinnige uitbeelding--Italië --- Birth --- Birthing --- Child birth --- Live birth --- Obstetrics --- Parturition --- Labor (Obstetrics) --- Birthing customs --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- History --- Italy --- Social life and customs. --- History of Italy --- births --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- cultuurgeschiedenis

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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.

Biography --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Italian. --- History in art. --- Art, Italian --- 091 PETRARCA, FRANCESCO --- 094 PETRARCA, FRANCESCO --- 7.04 <45> --- Italian art --- Bamboccianti (Group of artists) --- Corrente (Group of artists) --- Cracking Art (Group of artists) --- Fronte nuovo delle arti (Group of artists) --- Geometria e ricerca (Group of artists) --- Girasole (Group of artists) --- Gruppo 1 (Group of artists) --- Gruppo Aniconismo dialettico (Group of artists) --- Gruppo di Como (Group of artists) --- Gruppo di Scicli (Group of artists) --- Gruppo Enne (Group of artists) --- Gruppo Forma uno (Group of artists) --- Italiens de Paris (Group of artists) --- Mutus Liber (Group of artists) --- Novecento italiano (Group of artists) --- Nuovi-nuovi (Group of artists) --- Origine (Group of artists) --- Sei pittori di Torino (Group of artists) --- Transvisionismo (Group of artists) --- Historical art --- Art and history --- Italian illumination of books and manuscripts --- Biographies --- History --- Life histories --- Memoirs --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Genealogy --- 7.04 <45> Iconografie. Iconologie. Onderwerpen van kunstzinnige uitbeelding--Italië --- Iconografie. Iconologie. Onderwerpen van kunstzinnige uitbeelding--Italië --- 094 PETRARCA, FRANCESCO Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--PETRARCA, FRANCESCO --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--PETRARCA, FRANCESCO --- 091 PETRARCA, FRANCESCO Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--PETRARCA, FRANCESCO --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--PETRARCA, FRANCESCO --- Illustrations. --- Themes, motives. --- Petrarca, Francesco, --- Feliciano, Felice, --- Antiquario, --- Antiquario, Felix, --- Antiquarius, Felix, --- Feliciano, --- Feliciano, Felice --- Felicianus Antiquarius, Felix, --- Felix, --- Book history --- Petrarca, Francesco --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Italian --- History in art --- Illustrations --- Themes, motives