Complete and unabridged, with 42 full-page plates by Pietro della Vecchia, Piero della Francesca and Palma il Giovane. Swiss legends canton by canton - Tell, the devil's bridge, the lake maidens, the saints of the passes - retold by the writer whose mythology handbooks taught the subject to two generations. This edition is bound with a gallery of 42 plates of painting, among them works by Marco Zoppo, Paris Bordone and Cosimo Tura, and includes 18 in-text illustrations restored and coloured for this volume.