Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Collection of poetry

Other related names

• Barberini, Antonio, 1607-1681, dedicatee
• Cosimo II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1590-1621, dedicatee
• Ferdinando VI Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, 1587-1626, dedicatee
• Marie de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1573-1642, dedicatee
• Urban VIII, Pope, 1568-1644, dedicatee

Call number

Ms. Codex 275
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580887
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580887

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

between 1600 and 1625?

Place

Italy

Summary

Consists of three separate sections of poems and verses. The first section (f. 1r-114v) is dedicated to Cardinal Antonio Barberini (f. 1r) by "L'Accademico Innominato" (f. 3v). It contains many poems, including several addresses to Cardinal Antonio Barberini and one in praise of Pope Urban VIII. With corrections, possibly by the author. The second section (f. 118r-212r) consists of poems of various types--sonnets, canzoni, madrigals, etc.-- to various addressees, both fictitious and real, including Maria de' Medici (Queen of France), Ferdinando di Toscana, Cosimo II, Ferdinando Gonzaga, Pope Leo XI, etc., and one poem "In morte del re Filippo" (probably Philip III of Spain). The third section (f. 213r-254v) is titled "Canzonetti" and consists of miscellaneous poems.

Notes

• No author is named, but according to the descriptive notes of the bookseller Renzo Rizzi (on file in the Library), the author or authors were affiliated with the Accademia degli Alterati of Florence and Rome.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger. Spine title: Poesie.
   

Extent

255 leaves : 220 x 169 (156 x 114) mm. bound to 237 x 176 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 256 + i; [1-256]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Irregular contemporary foliation in some sections.

Support

Paper

Binding

Paper boards, later in date than the text. The volume was probably assembled and bound sometime after the three sections were written. The three sections are of slightly different sizes, with the third section being markedly smaller in dimensions than the first two. Binding slightly loose. Stains and smudges. Some oxidation of ink, especially in the second section. Edges of some folios worn and frayed, especially in the second section.

Script

Written in various calligraphic and cursive scripts by at least three different hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Renzo Rizzi, 1958.
   

Subjects topical

• Italian literature--17th century
• Italian poetry--17th century

Genres

• Codices
• Poems
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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