207:, who makes very honourable mention of our author in his history, pretends that Phaedrus was not unknown to him; and even blames him for having suppressed that author, to conceal what he had stolen from him. But there is no ground for what he says; and it is only the effect of the strong persuasion of all those who are so great admirers of antiquity as to think that a modern author can do nothing that is excellent, unless he has an ancient author for his model. Out of the hundred fables which Faerno published in Latin verse, there are but five that had been treated by Phaedrus, and out of those five there are but one or two that have been managed nearly in the same manner: which happened only because it is impossible that two men, who treat on the same subject, should not agree sometimes in the same thoughts, or in the same expressions."
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138:, has left a note on the scrupulous care with which he approached the subject. 'As for Livy, I would not want you to believe that is so bold and presumptuous as to add or change anything without the evidence of the ancient codices, unless obviously corrupt. If he cannot avoid mistakes at times, he does everything scrupulously, giving exact reasons for any opinion or conjecture of his, so as to leave anyone free to judge for himself.'
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in Spain. At some time in the next decade he was recommended by his sponsors to Rome. The first evidence of his presence in the city is in a letter from Carlo
Gualteruzzi to Giovanni Della Casa in October, 1548. At the start of 1549 he began working in the Vatican Library and was brought into contact
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Pope Pius IV, convinced that reading the fables of Aesop was of great use in forming the morals of young children, commissioned
Gabriel Faerno, whom he knew as an excellent poet as well as a man with a taste for elegant and beautiful Latinity, to versify these fables so that children might learn, at
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were included in the work as well. It was to go through some forty
European editions, including translations into Italian, English, German, Dutch and French. In England the 1741 edition, which included Perrault's French translations and an English translation, was to serve as a school textbook. But
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Gabriele Faerno was born in
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the same time and from the same book, both moral and linguistic purity....Faerno has been called a second
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The title of Faerno's celebrated work translates as 'One hundred delightful fables, poetically interpreted from ancient authors'. The following is a list of the fables occurring there, with links to those that have a separate article devoted to them.
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is more indebted than to Faerno; who, by a judicious collation of ancient manuscripts and editions, has restored the true reading of his author in many important passages. Faerno's edition became the basis of almost every subsequent one, and Dr.
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228:, the morals with which Faerno furnished the fables by way of conclusion were seen as contributing to that fashion and widening the subject matter to include the Aesopic fable too.
235:; verses accompanying illustrations of artistic works; complimentary addresses and other occasional verse. He was also the author of sonnets in Italian.
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Shakespeare and the emblem writers: an exposition of their similarities of thought and expression; preceded by a view of emblem-literature down to 1616
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Faerno's literary accomplishments over the next decade gained him the esteem and friendship of the cardinal
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Poems attributed to Faerno were also printed in some later editions. They include his attack on
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on 17 November 1561. He was a scrupulous textual editor and an elegant Latin poet who is best known now for his collection of
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the work was successful and influential for other reasons than the fineness of the language. The illustrations by
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Faerno is counted one of the foremost of the
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with many of the scholars and philologists who gravitated around the activities there.
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which accompanied each fable were also esteemed. Published at the time of a taste for
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Cinquecento romano e riforma cattolica, in Lateranum
902:(Aesop's Fables) by Gabriele Faerno on Google Books
854:A sonnet "On Scanderbeg's sepulchre" is available
745:Letter to Andrea Masio, quoted in P. Paschini,
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123:, Rome 1563, 8vo, very highly praised by
858:with a modern translation into Albanian
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657:93. Arbores et rhamnus - noticed under
606:81. Simius et vulpes - noticed under
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702:Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani
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578:The Astrologer who Fell into a Well
320:The Fox, the Flies and the Hedgehog
83:is in the Philosophers Room of the
689:The miller, his son and the donkey
533:The Fuller and the Charcoal Burner
419:The Bird-catcher and the Blackbird
213:The miller, his son and the donkey
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291:11. mergus, rubus et vespertilio.
68:, and of his nephew the cardinal
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233:In Lutheranos, sectam Germanicam
706:General Biographical Dictionary
687:100. Pater, filius et asinus -
258:3. Leo, asinus et vulpes - The
121:Ciceronis Orationes Philippicae
393:34. Mercurius et statuarius -
375:29. Canis, gallus et vulpes -
267:5. leo mente captus et caprea.
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942:Italian Renaissance humanists
927:16th-century writers in Latin
377:The Cock, the Dog and the Fox
342:21. dies festus et profestus.
932:16th-century Italian writers
891:Children's literature portal
774:51, Leuven University 2002,
615:83. Formica - noticed under
558:69. Asinus dominos mutans -
554:The Old Woman and the Doctor
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446:The fly on the chariot wheel
338:The Fox and the Crow (Aesop)
645:91. Bubulcus et Hercules -
639:89. asinus corvus et lupus.
617:The Ant and the Grasshopper
594:77. vespertilio et mustela.
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438:43. asinus simius et talpa.
426:41. Uxor submersa et vir -
275:The Ant and the Grasshopper
134:and Faerno's contemporary,
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489:55. pullus asini et lupus.
482:The Dog and Its Reflection
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79:A rare bust of Faerno by
76:towards the end of 1561.
800:"The French text online"
772:Humanistica Louvaniensia
684:99. leo lupus et vulpes.
647:Hercules and the Wagoner
608:The Boy and the Filberts
603:80. canes duo et coquus.
600:79. gallinus et hirundo.
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423:40. deceptor et Apollo.
414:38. ranae duae vicinae.
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474:51. asini et Iupiter.
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399:35. Pater et filii -
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345:22. pavo et monedula.
287:The Old Man and Death
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512:The Cat and the Mice
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395:The Statue of Hermes
330:19. Vulpes et uva -
326:The Lion and the Fox
324:18. Leo et vulpes -
294:12. cornix et canis.
285:10. Senex et mors -
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477:52. herus et canis.
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372:28. canis et lupus.
305:The Fly in the Soup
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810:2011-03-29
712:References
573:72. vates.
381:30. mulus.
176:100 Fables
279:8. turdi.
156:Suetonius
58:Barcelona
201:Pithoeus
188:Phaedrus
125:Graevius
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844:pp.3-12
205:Thuanus
160:Tacitus
152:Plautus
109:Terence
37:Cremona
856:online
788:online
776:pp.125
760:online
239:Titles
166:Poetry
158:, and
148:Horace
144:Ennius
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