Le staffilate date al cavalier Tomaso Stigliani per haver mal ragionato contra l'Adone del cavalier Marino. Con una lettera in fine de' costumi della Francia.

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Capponi, Giovanni, 1586-1629.

Contributor:

• Marino, Giambattista, 1569-1625.
• Albrecht, Otto Edwin, 1899- former owner.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

• Stigliani, Tommaso, 1573-1651.
• Italian poetry--17th century.
• Italian poetry.
• Poets, Italian--Early modern, 1500-1700.
• Poets, Italian.
• Poets, Italian--Early modern.

Genre:

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Poetry.
• Manuscripts, Italian -- 17the century.
• Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

• Sold by Otto Albrecht (emeritus professor of music, University of Pennsylvania), 1973.

Physical Description:

47 leaves : paper ; 130 x 70 (110 x 60) mm bound to 135 x 76 mm

Place of Publication:

[Italy], [1625-1650]

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

This work was published in Frankfurt in 1638; it is a vigorously scatological defense of Marino's poetics and morals against a posthumous attack by his rival Tommaso Stigliani (1573-1651). Capponi was a Bolognese poet and supporter of Marino's.

Contents:

• 1. f.2r-39r: Le staffilate...
• 2. f.39v-45v: I costumi della Francia del Cavalier Marino.

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (f. 1r); "Il presente libretto è opera di Gio: Capone" (f. 1v).
• Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 47 + i (contemporary paper); [1-47]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
• Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
• Binding: Contemporary vellum.
• Origin: Written in Italy in the second quarter of the 17th century.

Cited in:

• Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800. Supplement B, The Library Chronicle 45 (1981), p. 19 (Ms. Italian 263).
• See Marino, Giambattista, Lettere, ed. Margiano Guglielminetti (Torino: Einaudi, 1966) pp. 186, 241, 269

Cited as:

Giovanni Capponi, Le staffilate date al cavalier Tomaso Stigliani (Ms. Codex 484). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Related Work:

Marino, Giambattista, 1569-1625. I costumi della Francia.

OCLC:

155965057