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    The humanist scholar Gabriele Faerno, also known by his Latin name of Faernus Cremonensis, was born in Cremona about 1510 and died in Rome on 17 November...
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    times, a number of Neo-Latin poets used it as a subject, including Gabriele Faerno (1563), Hieronymus Osius (1564) and Candidus Pantaleon (1604). The...
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    collections of fables in verse, among which the most influential was Gabriele Faerno's Centum Fabulae (1564). The majority of the hundred fables there are...
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    tales, he translated the Fabulae Centum (100 Fables) of the Latin poet Gabriele Faerno into French verse in 1699. Antoine Galland Alexander Afanasyev Brothers...
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  • East German gymnast Gabriele Faerno (died 1561), Italian writer Gabriele Falloppio (1523–1562), Italian anatomist and physician Gabriele Ferretti (1795–1860)...
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    John Lydgate Kawanabe Kyōsai Laurentius Abstemius Roger L'Estrange Gabriele Faerno Hieronymus Osius Marie de France Robert Henryson Jean de La Fontaine...
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    John Lydgate Kawanabe Kyōsai Laurentius Abstemius Roger L'Estrange Gabriele Faerno Hieronymus Osius Marie de France Robert Henryson Jean de La Fontaine...
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    also been ascribed to the philosopher Socrates. The Neo-Latin poets Gabriele Faerno and Hieronymus Osius both wrote poetic versions, as did Jean de la...
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  • John Lydgate Kawanabe Kyōsai Laurentius Abstemius Roger L'Estrange Gabriele Faerno Hieronymus Osius Marie de France Robert Henryson Jean de La Fontaine...
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    writers, Andrea Alciato in his Emblemata (1534) and the Neo-Latin poet Gabriele Faerno in his collection of a hundred fables (Fabulum Centum, 1563). Alciato...
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  • the Perry Index and is the one followed by such Neo-Latin writers as Gabriele Faerno and Hieronymus Osius and in English by Geoffrey Whitney. This alternative...
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    cat) in 1499. A more popular version in Latin verse was written by Gabriele Faerno and printed posthumously in his Fabulae centum ex antiquis auctoribus...
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    the subject of two Latin poems by Hieronymus Osius and another by Gabriele Faerno. In the contemporary Fables d'Esope by Gilles Corrozet (1547), as in...
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    bibistis: tempus abire tibi est). In the Renaissance, the neo-Latin poet Gabriele Faerno included the version told of a fly in his Centum Fabulae (1563), ending...
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    17th century. Hieronymus Osius devoted a Neo-Latin poem to it, as did Gabriele Faerno. The latter ends with the moral that "desert must be proved by deeds"...
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  • it was the fable of the Crow and the Snake that had been chosen by Gabriele Faerno for his collection of a hundred fables in Neo-Latin verse, with the...
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    version has six pentameter lines, of which two draw the moral, and Gabriele Faerno's Latin reworking has five lines and two more drawing the moral. Both...
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    Neo-Latin poems based on it were written by Hieronymus Osius and Gabriele Faerno in the 16th century, while in England it was included in Geoffrey Whitney's...
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  • there were 16th century poetic versions of the fable in Neo-Latin by Gabriele Faerno and by Hieronymus Osius. The latter concludes with the sentiment that...
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    gazing up at the stars, falls backward into a pond. The Neo-Latin poet Gabriele Faerno also included the story of the stumbling astrologer in his collection...
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  • household effects. The story was rendered into Latin by the Papal scholar Gabriele Faerno and appeared in his collection of a hundred fables (1563) under the...
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    The same story is told among the "100 Fables" (Fabulae Centum) of Gabriele Faerno (1564) and as the opening poem in Giovanni Maria Verdizotti's Cento...
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    included the French author Gilles Corrozet (1547) and two Italians, Gabriele Faerno (1564) and Giovanni Maria Verdizotti. In Heinrich Steinhowel's 1479...
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    in an emblematic way. They include Latin versions of the fable by Gabriele Faerno, whose De Canis & Caro warns not to prefer the uncertain to the sure...
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  • chariot during a race and comments on how much dust it is raising. Gabriele Faerno included it in his own Centum Fabulae (1563), giving the impression...
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    statement "that music is so powerful that it can even avert death". When Gabriele Faerno versified the fable as Cygnus et Anser (the swan and the goose) in...
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  • only began to gain greater currency during the European Renaissance. Gabriele Faerno made it the subject of a Latin poem in his Centum Fabulae (1563). In...
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    fable which was subsequently added to their fable collections by both Gabriele Faerno and by L'Estrange. It relates how, when the animals were invited to...
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    Achille Bocchi Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere       1555 Gabriele Faerno Centum Fabulae       1563 fables 100 la János Zsámboky Emblemata cum...
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    your trust, Let your own hands tarry not at first. Not long after, Gabriele Faerno included the story of Hercules and the Wagoner in his influential collection...
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