Vita, morte e miracoli di Bartolomeo Garosi detto Brandano e volgarmente detto il Pazzo di Gesù Christo ... [etc.].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Bartolomeo, da Petroio, 1488?-1554.

Bartolomeo.

Cecco, d'Ascoli, 1269-1327.

Cecco.

Medici, Giuliano de', 1453-1478.

Medici, Giuliano de'.

Inquisition--Italy--Florence.

Inquisition.

Pazzi Conspiracy, 1478.

Florence (Italy)--History.

Florence (Italy).

Siena (Italy)--History--1355-1557.

Siena (Italy).

Italy--Florence.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

biographies (literary genre)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Henry Charles Lea, 1886 (bookplate, inside upper cover).

Bequest of Henry Charles Lea, 1909.

Physical Description:

77 leaves : paper ; 214 x 161 (189 x 147) mm bound to 221 x 163 mm

Production:

[Italy], [1600?]

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Three biographies written in one hand. The first is of Bartolomeo Carosi, or Garosi, born ca. 1488 in Petroio (in this account Pretoria), province of Siena. Known as Brandano, "the madman of Jesus Christ," he was one of the itinerant apocalyptic preachers or "romiti" who flourished in Italy around the time of the Sack of Rome. This biography describes in detail his conversion, his devotions, his preaching activities, his miracles, and, in particular, the political bent soon taken on by his preaching: it claims that Brandano's influence on the popular classes was a significant factor in the Sienese revolt against the Spanish garrison in 1552. There is a different life of Brandano in UPenn Ms. Codex 287 (f. 49-98). The second biography is of Cecco d'Ascoli, an astrologer executed for heresy by the Inquisition in Florence in 1328 (according to this text--other sources give 1327 as his death date). The third biography describes the death of Giuliano de' Medici, younger brother of Lorenzo il Magnifico, killed during the Pazzi conspiracy in 1478 (incorrectly transcribed in Zacour-Hirsch as 1470).

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from caption title (p. 1).

Pagination: Paper, 77; [ii, 1-152]; modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto; p. 65-152 blank; final folio torn out.

Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Binding: Contemporary vellum, with some patches of vellum missing on upper cover.

Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1600 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Titles and notes in pencil on f. i recto are in the hand of Henry Charles Lea, as is the note laid in between p. 62-63.

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. 183 (Ms. Lea 173).

For discussion of other biographies of Brandano, see Tognetti, Giampaolo, Sul 'Romito' e profeta Brandano da petroio, Rivista storia italiana 72 (1960), p. 20-44. Ms. Codex 597 cannot be readily identified with those vite discussed by Tognetti; it shares some features with the life by the Augustinian Mariano Fedeli, believed by Tognetti to be lost.

For bibliography on item 2 see Thorndike, History of Magic, II, 951.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 597

Contains:

Morte di Cecco d'Ascoli seguita in firenze l'anno mille trecento venti octo.

Morte di Giuliano de Medici seguita nel duomo della città di firenze alli 26 Aprile 1478.

OCLC:

155967178