Grimaldi, Giovanni Battista
The bibliophile whose collection was long
considered to have been brought together by
Demetrio Canevari, physician to Pope Urban VIII.
The bindings were produced by Venetian
bookbinders, probably between 1535 and 1560, and
were subsequently inherited by Canevari. The
bindings feature fine-figured borders of
gold-tooled decoration, with painted oval cameos
of Apollo driving his chariot drawn by two horses
toward Pegasus. There are two varieties of this
elliptical cameo stamp, with the greater diameter
of the larger being perpendicular and that of the
smaller horizontal. On some of the bindings the
title appears on both covers in a cartouche above
the stamp. See also:CAMEO BINDINGS . (168 , 347 )
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