C. Suetonii Tranquilli de vita et moribus Caesarum libri duodecim

The picture shows the frontispiece of this manuscript which was written by Bartolomeo Sanvito and illuminated by Gaspare da Padova.

Bartolomeo Sanvito. the scribe and Gaspare da Padova, the illuminator met Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga’s household in Padova in about 1462. The two began their collaboration in 1469 with a stunning copy of Julius Caesar and continued until the early 1490s. Their masterpiece is the two-volume Greek and Latin Iliad of Homer (1477-1483) that was left unfinished due to the death of Cardinal Gonzaga.