A luxurious copy of the Life of Aesop, part historical and part
legendary, that was compiled around 1300 by Maximos Planudes. These
pages once constituted the first part of a manuscript of Aesop's
Fables , which today is held primarily in New York. It was written
in Florence between 1482 and 1485 by Démétrios Damilas, one of
the main scribes at the court of the Medici, for Lorenzo the
Magnificent’s young son Piero II de' Medici, who was 10-12 years
old at the time. On the splendid frontispiece one can recognize the
portraits of Planudes and Piero II.
