{"id":1238,"date":"2025-10-07T23:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T23:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:07:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:07:04","slug":"monsters-pare-aldrovandi-liceti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2025\/10\/07\/monsters-pare-aldrovandi-liceti\/","title":{"rendered":"monsters: Par\u00e9, Aldrovandi, Liceti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CC Special Collections has three illustrated books about monsters published in the 17th century. The authors are Ambroise Par\u00e9 (French, 1510-1590), Ulisse Aldrovandi (Italian, 1522-1605), and Fortunio Liceti (Italian, 1577-1657). We have a 1628 edition of Par\u00e9’s Oeuvres<\/em> (first published in 1573), a 1642 edition of Aldrovandi’s Monstrorum Historia<\/em> (the first edition, published posthumously) and a 1665 edition of Liceti’s De Monstris<\/em> (first published in 1616 without illustrations).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The “monsters” in these books include people with genetic anomalies (such as conjoined twins), mythical creatures (such as centaurs), and … well … these:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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and these:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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and many other similar trios. I have searched in vain for an explanation of how these three books ended up with such similar illustrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CC Special Collections has three illustrated books about monsters published in the 17th century. The authors are Ambroise Par\u00e9 (French, 1510-1590), Ulisse Aldrovandi (Italian, 1522-1605), and Fortunio Liceti (Italian, 1577-1657). We have a 1628 edition of Par\u00e9’s Oeuvres (first published in 1573), a 1642 edition of Aldrovandi’s Monstrorum Historia (the first edition, published posthumously) and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cc-special-collections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-jY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1255,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}