Илюстрациите на първия български Бертолдо
The Illustrations of the First Bulgarian Bertoldo

Summary/Abstract: In 1853, Hristo Vasilev Protopopovich published his translation from Greek of “Le sottilissime astuzie di Bertoldo” (1606) by Giulio Cesare Della Croce. This is one of the first Bulgarian illustrated editions; the illustrations are taken from the Greek source, and their author is unknown. These, in turn, were based on an Italian edition from 1646 and corresponded to the style of the folk book. Ludovico Mattioli illustrated a later Italian edition from 1736 based on designs by Giuseppe Maria Crespi. Numerous later editions duplicated these pictures, which were done in a more classicist style. Observations of the various illustrations reveal an interesting development – from popular to more traditional literature, and in the 20th century, as reading material intended for children.

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