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Title

Il Capitolo Fratesco

Authors

• Chiesa, Sebastiano

Other related names

• Lercari, Andrea Imperiale, b. 1623, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 346
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580982
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580982

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

16--

Place

Italy

Summary

Poem satirizing the monks of the Franciscan order, to which the writer appears to have belonged. Written in 14 cantos of 382 8-line stanzas. The text in this manuscript appears to be incomplete. At the end of Canto 14 (f. 228r) there are indications that a Canto 15 was to have followed. Other known copies of this poem consist of 16 cantos in all.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• No indication of author. In other known copies of this poem the work is attributed to a Sebastiano Chiesa (pseudonym: Tisabesano Sechia).
   
• Incipit (f. 3r): Canto primo. / Argomento. / Al luogo del capitolo assegnato / arrivano i vocali à schiere à schiere / si grida, e romoreggia in ogni lato / ... (This does not include the preface "Al lettore" on f. 2r-v.).
   
• Incipit of first stanza in Canto primo: Del poetico genio altri la vena / cò Liquor d' Ippocrene, e di Permesso / ...
   
• Short dealer's description in English pasted to title page (f. 1r).
   
• Another copy or version of this poem is in Ms. Codex 347, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.
   

Extent

238 leaves : 287 x 197 mm. bound to 309 x 212 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 238 + ii (modern paper); [1-238]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern boards. Cover pulling away at upper hinge, tearing f. 1 in the process. Various stains. Edges of many leaves worn and fraying.

Script

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

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Andrea Imperiale Lercari of Genoa (label, f. 1r).
   
• Accessioned, 1960.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Discipline
• Franciscans--In literature
• Franciscans--Humor
• Italian literature
• Italian poetry
• Monasticism and religious orders--Humor

Genres

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

Licenses

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