Leonardo Parasole was an Italian

Italy

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 engraver on wood of the late-Mannerist and early-Baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 periods.

He was born and active in Rome

Rome

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. He married the engraver Isabella Parasole

Isabella Parasole

Isabella Parasole was an Italian engraver on wood of the late-Mannerist and early-Baroque periods.She was born and active in Rome. She married the engraver Leonardo Norsini, who took his wife's more distinguished last name. Her sister, Geronima Parasole, was also an engraver and made a woodcut of...

, and discarded his original last name, Norsini or Norcino, and took his wife's more distinguished last name. He made cuts for the Herbal

Herbal

AThe use of a or an depends on whether or not herbal is pronounced with a silent h. herbal is "a collection of descriptions of plants put together for medicinal purposes." Expressed more elaborately — it is a book containing the names and descriptions of plants, usually with information on their...

 book written by Castor Durante, physician to Pope Sixtus V

Pope Sixtus V

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, which was engraved by order of that pontiff. He also engraved the wood-cuts to a Testamentum novnm, arabice et latine and several prints from the designs of Antonio Tempesta

Antonio Tempesta

Antonio Tempesta was an Italian painter and engraver, a point of connection between Baroque Rome and the culture of Antwerp. He was born and trained in Florence and painted in a variety of styles, influenced to some degree by "Contra-Maniera" or Counter-Mannerism...

, including an Annunciation. His son, Bernardino Parasole

Bernardino Parasole

Bernardino Parasole was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.He was born to the painters, Isabella and Leonardo Parasole, but then apprenticed with Giuseppe Cesari. Bernardino died young.-References:...

was also an engraver and painter.