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Raginamento d'amore / fatto da Lorenzo Giacomini de Tebalducci nel' Ac[c]ademia Fiorentina.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 333
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Language:
Italian
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Penn Provenance:
  • Sold by Gozzini sale (no. 1045), 1925.
Physical Description:
46 leaves : paper ; 335 x 226 (290 x 182) mm bound to 340 x 231 mm
Other Title:
  • Ragionamento d'amore.
  • Perche tutte l'operatione del' huomo tendono a qualche fine.
Place of Publication:
[Florence], [between 1575 and 1599]
Language Note:
Italian.
Summary:
Text of a speech by Lorenzo Giacomini Tebalducci Malespini.
Notes:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from heading (f. 1r).
  • Title and attribution also written on upper cover in a contemporary or slightly later hand. There the title is spelled "Ragionamento d'amore."
  • Incipit (f. 1r): Perche tutte l'operationi del' huomo tendono a qualche fine ...
  • Foliation: Paper, 46; [ii], 1-44; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
  • Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, possibly in the autograph of the author.
  • Binding: Contemporary parchment with remains of parchment ties. Cover slightly worn and splitting at spine. Some smudges and stains. Slight oxidation of ink in places.
  • Origin: Written in Florence, last quarter of 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
  • This speech appears to have remained unpublished.
  • Laid into the manuscript was a copy of a letter from Prof. Enzo Orvieto of the University of Pennsylvania Romance Languages Department, dated 1 March 1967, in which Prof. Orvieto states that he has obtained a photocopy of the manuscript and is studying it for research and possible publication. This letter is on file in the Library.
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. 130 (Ms. Italian 182).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 333
OCLC:
155964380

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