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[Crestomazia di poeti italiani del Cinquecento].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 279
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Italian literature--16th century.
- Italian literature.
- Italian poetry--16th century.
- Italian poetry.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- anthologies
- Poetry.
- Sonnets.
- Manuscripts, Italian -- 16th century.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Libreria Strozzi (gilt stamp, spine).
- Purchased, 1960.
- Physical Description:
- 30 leaves : paper ; 203 x 147 (153 x 88) mm bound to 208 x 149 mm
- Production:
- [Italy], [1550?]
- Other Title:
- Sonetti e poesie di vari autori.
- Quando 'l di parte, & l'ombra il mondo cuopre.
- Donna de' cui begl'occhi alto diletto.
- Language Note:
- Italian.
- Summary:
- Anthology of 16th-century Italian poetry. Contains nine sonnets, one canzone and "motti" by Pietro Bembo; poems by Giovanni Guidiccioni, B. Capello, F. Molza, B. Daniello, U. Martegli, C. Tolomei, and Della Casa (possibly Giovanni Della Casa); and several anonymous poems.
- Contents:
- Nine sonetti of Bembo
- Eight stanzas by an anonymous author
- One long canzone of nine stanzas by an anonymous author (inc.: Quando 'l di parte, & l'ombra il mondo cuopre)
- "Motti" of Bembo in 312 hendecasyllables, rhymed in couplets
- A short canzone of Giovanni Guidiccioni
- Four sonetti of Bernardo (or Bernardino) Capello, addressed to Re[verendissi]mo Farnese and Mons. Della Casa
- Three sonetti of Molza
- One sonetto of Bernardo Daniello
- One sonetto of Ugolino Martegli, addressed to Benedetto Varchi
- One sonetto by an anonymous poet
- Nine stanzas by Claudio Tolomei
- One sonetto of Mons. Della Casa
- One canzone in six stanzas by Bembo (inc.: Donna de' cui begl'occhi alto diletto)
- One sonetto of Ugolino Martegli, addressed to Antonio Berardi.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Spine title: Bembo. Sonetti e poesie di vari autori.
- Pagination: Paper, i (18th-century[?] paper) + 30 + i (18th-century[?] paper); 1-15, 15-59; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
- Script: Written in a humanistic script by a single hand. The few corrections (e.g., p. 4) might be in the same hand or a similar second hand.
- Binding: 18th-century[?] half-leather, with marbled paper over boards. Spine label has a gold crown with the letters "F. S.", probably indicating Libreria F. Strozzi. Some leaves stained. A few leaves show signs of repairs to the corners. Cover wearing at edges; wearing and beginning to split at outside hinges.
- Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1550 (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Cited in:
- Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 99 (Ms. Italian 37).
- Publications about:
- Tani, Irene. Le rime di Bernardo Cappello: Edizione critica (Venice: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2018), p. 116.
- Cited as:
- Crestomazia di poeti italiani del Cinquecento (Ms. Codex 279). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
- OCLC:
- 155964252
- Access Restriction:
- Access to this item is subject to staff review.
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