'Plantus, Comoediae, c1511. Artist: Lazarus de Soardi.

'Plantus, Comoediae, c1511. Artist: Lazarus de Soardi.

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'Plantus, Comoediae, c1511. PLAUTUS, originally from Titus Maccius (ca 254-184 B.C.). Comoediae. xx. Commentary by Bernardus Saracenus and Giovanni Pietro Valla. Venice: Lazarus Soardus, 1511. The woodcut of the actor addressing the audience in a theatre was first used in Soardi's 1497 edition of Terence and is one of the most famous images in the history of the stage. From The Connoisseur Volume L. [The Connoisseur Ltd., London, 1918]

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