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2 unusual facts about Gabriele Faerno


Gabriele Faerno

He also worked on the conflicting manuscripts of the historian Livy and Faerno's contemporary, Latino Latini, has left a note on the scrupulous care with which he approached the subject.

Thuanus, 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.


The Lion and the Fox

Latin poems based on it were written by Hieronymus Osius and Gabriele Faerno in the 16th century and in England it was included in Geoffrey Whitney's Choice of Emblemes (1586) and the collections of Francis Barlow and Roger L'Estrange in the late 17th century.


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