Raccolta di varij balli fatti in occorrenze di nozze e festini da nobili cavalieri e dame di diuerse nationi

Giacomo Franco (1550 in

Urbino Urbino ( ; ; Romagnol: ''Urbìn'') is a walled city in the Marche region of Italy, south-west of Pesaro, a World Heritage Site notable for a remarkable historical legacy of independent Renaissance culture, especially under the patronage of ...

(?) – 1620 in

Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...

) was an Italian engraver and publisher.

Biography

The natural son of

Battista Franco Battista Franco Veneziano also known by his correct name of Giovanni Battista Franco (before 1510 – 1561) was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker in etching active in Rome, Urbino, and Venice in the mid 16th century. He is also known ...

, also a painter and engraver, he was born in 1550 probably in

or perhaps in Venice, where all his known activity is recorded. He must have trained with his father, who in his youth in Rome had executed some etchings reproducing the frescoes of the

Sistine Chapel The Sistine Chapel (; la, Sacellum Sixtinum; it, Cappella Sistina ) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the pope in Vatican City. Originally known as the ''Cappella Magna'' ('Great Chapel'), the chapel takes its name ...

and the

Raphael Rooms The four Raphael Rooms ( it, Stanze di Raffaello) form a suite of reception rooms in the Apostolic Palace, now part of the Vatican Museums, in Vatican City. They are famous for their frescoes, painted by Raphael and his workshop. Together with ...

.Chiara Stefani
«Franco, Giacomo»
''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani'', 50 (1998), Treccani. He illustrated books with etchings and engravings, such as

Fabritio Caroso Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta (1526/1535 – 1605/1620) was an Italian Renaissance dancing master and a composer or transcriber of dance music. His dance manual ''Il Ballarino'' was published in 1581, with a subsequent edition, significantly dif ...

da Sermoneta's ''Il ballarino'' (1581), reprinted several times,

Ovid Pūblius Ovidius Nāsō (; 20 March 43 BC – 17/18 AD), known in English as Ovid ( ), was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the th ...

's ''

Metamorphoses The ''Metamorphoses'' ( la, Metamorphōsēs, from grc, μεταμορφώσεις: "Transformations") is a Latin narrative poem from 8 CE by the Roman poet Ovid. It is considered his ''magnum opus''. The poem chronicles the history of the wo ...

'' in the Venetian edition of 1584, and

Torquato Tasso Torquato Tasso ( , also , ; 11 March 154425 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem ''Gerusalemme liberata'' (Jerusalem Delivered), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between ...

's ''

Gerusalemme Liberata ''Jerusalem Delivered'', also known as ''The Liberation of Jerusalem'' ( it, La Gerusalemme liberata ; ), is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso, first published in 1581, that tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade i ...

'' in the first illustrated edition, printed in Genoa in 1590. The twenty plates and the title page of this work were drawn by B. Castello, who however signed only two plates. It is therefore possible that the remaining plates and the frontispiece of the work are the work of

Agostino Carracci Agostino Carracci (or Caracci) (16 August 1557 – 22 March 1602) was an Italian painter, printmaker, tapestry designer, and art teacher. He was, together with his brother, Annibale Carracci, and cousin, Ludovico Carracci, one of the founders of ...

, who could have received the commission between 1588 and 1589, during his stay in Venice. Perhaps then Franco met the Bolognese artist, whose translation prints he then used several times.In this period, he provided reproduction prints, such as

Veronese Veronese is the Italian word denoting someone or something from Verona, Italy and may refer to: * Veronese Riddle, a popular riddle in the Middle Ages * ''Veronese'' (moth), a moth genus in the family Crambidae * Monte Veronese, an Italian chees ...

's ''Pietà'' and the ''Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine''. Beginning in 1595, he also appears as a publisher of works by Agostino Carracci and

Palma il Giovane Iacopo Negretti (1548/50 – 14 October 1628), best known as Jacopo or Giacomo Palma il Giovane or simply Palma Giovane ("Young Palma"), was an Italian painter from Venice and a notable exponent of the Venetian school. After Tintoretto's death ...

, among others. He is also the author of two series of engravings dedicated to showing Venetian costumes in all their variety and richness, to demonstrate the power and luxury of the Venetian Republic: ''Habiti delle done venetiane intaggliate a Roma'' and ''Habiti d'huomeni et donne venetiane con la processione della Serma. Signoria et altri particolari cioé trionfi feste e cérimonie publiche della nobilissima città di Venetia'', Venice, 1610.Mancini, Matteo, «Entre Oriente y Occidente ''La ciudad más bella del mundo''», at Checa (2017), p. 94.

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