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Greater One-horned Rhino (unicornis)
Melchiorre Zoppio, 1544-1634
1600 La montagna circea torneamento nel passaggio della Sereniss. Duchessa Donna Margherita Aldrobrandina, Sposa del Sereniss. Ranuccio Farnese, Duca di Parma e Piacenza: festeggiato in Bologna à xxvii Giugno 1600. Bologna: Presso gli heredi fi Giovanni Rossi, pp. 1-112 (56 leaves); 4to.
Booklet issued on occasion of the wedding on 7 May 1600 of Ranuccio Farnese (1569-1622), Duke of Parma from 1592 and Margherita Aldrobrandina (ca. 1585 - 1646) in Bologna. The engraving is attributed to Cherubino Alberti (1553-1615), painter and printmaker in Rome.
The engraving (on p. 100) with the rhinoceros after Dürer (facing right) has no text concerning it.
Literature:
Clarke 1986, fig.108
