'Hesperides' by Basinio de' Basini of Parma


Country or nationality of origin: Italian
Place of origin: Rimini
Date: 1457-1468
The royal palace of Zephyrus on the island of Fortune: Rubbed figures of Sigismondo and (?). Castle and forest with blue-clad Psyche(?) reclining beneath trees.
Iinitial P(ost q[ua]m somnus) with interlace border, also drawing of putto riding emu [ostrich](?).

Previous: Hesperides: Sigismondo lands at the island of Fortune      Next: Hesperides: Sigismondo in the Elysian fields
Back to 'Hesperides' by Basinio de' Basini of Parma, Rimini, Italy, 1457-1468AD. Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 81.