Name

Franco dei Russi

Original name

Main activity

Illuminator

Secondary activity

Title

Name variations

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Education place

Ferrara

Education institution

Activity place

Urbino

Activity institution

Activity start date

1480

Activity end date

Place of birth

Mantua

Date of birth

1430

Place of death

Date of death

Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/collections/W8V4AJZW/tags/Franco%20dei%20Russi/collection

Descriptive card

Franco dei Russi was a manuscript illustrator of the Early Renaissance. Between 1463 and 1465 he worked in Ferrara, Mantua, Venice, and Padua; from 1474 to 1482 he was the official illuminator for the great library of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, and decorated the codex BAV, Urb. lat. 1384, containing the Arabic-Latin translation of the suras XXI and XXII of the Qur'an by Guglielmo Raimondo Moncada, and the latter's translations of other Arabic astrological texts in the same codex.

Entry author

Sara Fani