Francesco ROSASPINA (Montescudo, Rimini 1762 - Bologna 1842) "San Giovanni Evangelista" Original burin engraving from a subject by Antonio Allegri known as Correggio (Correggio 1489ca - March 1534) dated in the plate on the bottom right 1794. Nice copy printed on laid paper apparently without watermark, trimmed just at the footprint of the slab and applied to the four corners to a support sheet of thick eighteenth-century laid paper bearing signatures in red pencil, with some slight traces of dirt and other minimal defects in particular at the corners but overall in good general condition. It was the Benedictine monks of the Convent of San Giovanni Battista, in particular the Abbot Spinola, who commissioned Correggio to decorate the dome, the apse and other areas of the church. The pictorial undertaking lasted about four years, from 1520 to 1524 and the freshly painted lunette of 79 x 160cm with the Saint John writing the Gospels flanked by the Eagle located in the Presbytery, above the door leading to the Sacristy, is considered the initial work of the entire cycle. Bibliography: Gaeta Bertelà “Bolognese and Emilian engravers of the XVIII century” Bologna 1974 n ° 745. LeBlanc "Manuel de l'Amateur d'Estampes" Paris 1889 vol.3 pag. 361 n ° 18. Meyer "Correggio" Leipzig 1871 page 473 No. 105. Mussini "Correggio translated" Milan 1996 page 131 n ° 147. Pungileoni "Historical Memories of Antonio Allegri known as Correggio" Parma 1821 vol.III pag.115. Measurements in mm: 348 x 447 on sheet 540 x 765