# In libris Epitomarum illustriorum virorum Plutarchi [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, Italian]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Manuscript \(Ms. CCXXXIX\) ## Commentary In libris Epitomarum illustriorum virorum Plutarchi 1450s Manuscript \(Ms. CCXXXIX\) Biblioteca Capitolare, Verona This manuscript consists of three incomplete volumes of the Epitome of Plutarch. It was translated from Greek by Pietro Candido Decembrio \(1399-1472\), a humanist who worked for Filippo Maria Visconti, and as a secretary at the Aragonese court. The manuscript is decorated by fine miniatures of the Lombard school and contains the most complete fifteenth-century figurative commentary to Plutarch's work. The initial from folio 88v represents Cato the Censor, wearing a cloak and a laurel wreath and holding a book in his left hand and a lance with an oriflamme decorated with an eagle in his right. ## Related artworks - [Alessandro Cortesi: Poem]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics]() - [Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics]() - [Armiranda]() - [Aulus Gellius: Noctes Atticae]() - [Averulino: On the Architecture]() - [Baldo Martorelli: Grammar]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()