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ITALORUM BOCTRXNA XXXUSTRIUM IMAG<br />
INES (1600)<br />
Published by Theodoor Gallc and jan Moretus<br />
25 engravings<br />
This series consists of a typographically printed tide page,<br />
a one-page index set in letterpress on the verso of the tide<br />
page and 25 portraits of Italian scholars from the late<br />
Middle Ages onwards.The series is arranged more or less<br />
chronologically, the plates themselves are not numbered.<br />
The tide page informs the reader that the engravings were<br />
incised by Philips Galle, while the work was published by<br />
Theodoor Galle in collaboration with Jan Morems of the<br />
Offkina Plantiniana. Furthermore, the title page also refers<br />
to a slighdy earlier broadsheet engraving - published by<br />
Jan Moretus and Theodoor Galle jointly in 1599 - with<br />
the portraits of nine Greek scholars from the late four<br />
teenth- and fifteenth century (compare chapter 2, note<br />
93 and fig. 32).<br />
As yet only one copy has been found, located in the British<br />
Library, inv. 564.c.20(1). Added at die back of this copy Is<br />
a three-page, manuscript index - probably written In die<br />
early seventeenth century. As this index also includes die<br />
names from Philips Galle's earlier 1572- and 1587-edi-<br />
tions, it logical to assume that at one point these three<br />
collections of portraits were bound together. Now added<br />
as convolute is an early Impression of Dominique<br />
Lampsons Piciorum aliquot celebrium Germaniae Inferiotis<br />
effigies, as published by Volcxken Diericx - die widow of<br />
Hieronymus Cock - in 1572.<br />
Fifteen plates were used from Philips Galle s earlier series<br />
of portraits, in order of their appearance in the Index of<br />
the book: Pope Pius II (1572b),Thomas ab Aquino (1587),<br />
Francesco Petrarca (1572b), Dante Alighicri (1572b),<br />
Marsilio Ficino (1572), Angelo Poliziano (1572b),<br />
Francesco GrifFolini (1587), Jacopo Sannazaro (1587),<br />
Ludovico Ariosto (1587), Pandolfo Collenuccio (1587),<br />
GiampictroValeriano (1587),Aldo Manuzio (1587),Paolo<br />
Manuzio (1587), Andrea Alciati (1567) and PietroVettori<br />
(1587). All of these portraits certainly have been engraved<br />
by Philips Galle. The verses in the lower margin are still<br />
exactly the same as in the original scries, written by Benito<br />
Arias Montano (1572-edition) and Frans van Ravellngen<br />
(1587-edirion).<br />
The 10 newly engraved portraits are, again in order of<br />
their appearance in the Index: Ermoiao Barbara, Daniel<br />
Appendm 2 I<br />
310<br />
Barbara, Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Marco<br />
Girolami Vida, Marcantomo Maioragio, Carlo Sigonio,<br />
Fulvio Orsini, Ippolito Capilupi, Lelio Capilupo and<br />
Giuseppe Castiglione. Judging by style and technique<br />
these images have not been engraved by Philips Galle, but<br />
by an unknown collaborator from the Galle workshop. As<br />
yet, it is unknown who is the author of the verses in the<br />
margin.<br />
Lit,:<br />
Johnson 1965, p. 81; die book will also be listed in Dirk<br />
Imhof's forthcoming catalogue (1998) of books printed<br />
and published by Jan Moretus, no. G-5.