Illustration no. 15 in  Antonio Lafréry (1512-1577), ILLUSTRIUM IURECONSULTORUM IMAGINES QUAE INVENIRI POTUERUNT AD VIVAM EFFIGIEM EXPRESSAE (Rome, 1566?). One of the first published portrait albums with 24 juristis’ portraits, probably one of the very few engraved plates by Lafreri himself. The engravings were based on a set of portraits in the collection of Mantova Benavides, a jurist in Padua. A complete set is the Rare Book Collection, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School. (LM Za L13). Fine early impression with tone, trimmed into the platemark. Mounted on an album sheet. Some thin areas.

Giovanni Battista Roselli, was born at Arezzo around 1430. He studied law at Padua and in 1452 he joined the college of judges and began teaching canon law. From 1458 to 1464, he was in charge of the `schola Sexti', but in the following years his assignments rather concentrated on civil law. He returned to the teaching of canon law only in the 1480's. He held often-changing posts after that, partly because of ill health, partly because he apparently did not think of leaving Padua and therefore could not exert pressure on the University to offer him permanent posts. He died in 1510.