Montresor, Beni (Personal Name)

Author's House of flowers, house of stars, 1962.

N.Y. times, Oct. 13, 2001 (Beni Montresor; children's book illustrator and opera set and costume designer; b. Mar. 31, 1926 in Bussolengo, Italy; d. Thurs. [Oct. 11] in Verona, Italy, aged 78 [i.e. 75, per corrigendum on Oct. 15])

http://www.geocities.com/musiclassical/mmile.html (Montresor, Beni; born March 31, 1926; died Oct. 11, 2001, Verona, age 75; opera scene designer)

Wikipedia, Feb. 4, 2014 (Beni Montresor, Italian artist, opera and film director, set and costume designer, author and children's book illustrator; won the 1965 Caldecott Medal for May I bring a friend?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beni_Montresor