Aesopian Texts and Aesopian Editions in the Library of Hernando Colón

he first eighty years after the introduction of movabletype printing in Europe are particularly interesting to those studying the development of the production and circulation of the literary genre of the fable in the early modern period.The collections of fables ascribed to the name of Aesop, in different languages, textual forms, and editorial arrangements, already enjoyed a notable degree of popularity during the fourteenth century, all over Europe.From the beginning of the fifteenth century the humanistic interest in rediscovering classical literary sources had involved Aesopian literature as well, with new translations of the Greek texts of Aesop's biography (Vita) and of the apologues (Fabulae) being produced, along with a general