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Title

Crestomazia di poeti italiani del Cinquecento.

Authors

• Bembo, Pietro, 1470-1547
• Daniello, Bernardino, -1565
• Della Casa, Giovanni, 1503-1556
• Guidiccioni, Giovanni, 1500-1541
• Molza, Francesco Maria, 1489-1544
• Tolomei, Claudio, 1492-1555
• Cappello, Bernardo, 1498-1565
• Martegli, Ugolino

Other related names

• Varchi, Benedetto, 1503-1565, addressee (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80128569)

Call number

Ms. Codex 279
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915808913503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155904434
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p33k49

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1550?

Place

Italy

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.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• 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.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Spine title: Bembo. Sonetti e poesie di vari autori.
   

Extent

30 leaves : 203 x 147 (153 x 88) mm bound to 208 x 149 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (18th-century[?] paper) + 30 + i (18th-century[?] paper); 1-15, 15-59; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

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.

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.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Libreria Strozzi (gilt stamp, spine).
   
• Purchased, 1960.
   

Subjects topical

• Italian literature--16th century
• Italian literature
• Italian poetry--16th century
• Italian poetry

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• anthologies
• Poetry
• Sonnets
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• Anthology
• 16th century
• Literature
• Poetry
• Italian
• Italy
• Paper

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