Homer: Works
by GHERARDO DI GIOVANNI DEL FORA, Incunable (S. Q. XIII. K. 22), 330 x 225 mm
This miniature is from a book printed in Florence in 1488. The book, one of the first books printed in Greek, contains the works of Homer. The font of the Greek letters had been designed especially for this book. The miniature depicts Piero di Lorenzo de’ Medici (1472-1473) to whom the book was dedicated. Piero was the oldest son of and at the age of seventeen, luckless successor to Lorenzo the Magnificent.
The book contains also other miniatures by Gherardo.