⚠This page contains a mirrored and faint "show-through" image of a title page from the opposite side of the leaf. The transcription below reflects the un-mirrored, reconstructed text.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY

LEONARDO

DA VINCI

PRAISE OF MONUMENTS

JESTS AND POETRY

ARRANGED

ALPHABETICALLY AND

ADDED TO THE

NEW TRANSLATION

FROM THE WORKS OF GIORGIO VASARI Vasari was a 16th-century artist and the first major biographer of Renaissance masters.

BY HEINRICH PFEIFFER

LEIPZIG BY CASPAR FRITSCH

1800

This reconstructed title page refers to an 18th-century publication by Heinrich Pfeiffer, which drew heavily from Vasari's "Lives of the Artists" to present Leonardo's literary and anecdotal side to a German-speaking audience.