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Title

Alcune novelle di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio

Authors

• Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
• Petroni, Riccardo

Other related names

• Alberti, Giovanni Battista, dedicatee

Call number

Ms. Codex 348
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580985
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580985

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1731

Place

Naples

Summary

An apparently unpublished verse rendering of five novelle from Boccaccio's Decameron. Rendered in "verso sciolto" by Riccardo Petroni of Siena. Consists of Giornata IV, novelle 1-2, 5; and Giornata X, novelle 3, 10. Dedicated to a Gio[vanni] Battista Alberti (f. 2r). This Alberti is apparently the Sienese author of that name who published works in 1711 and 1717.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and attribution from title page (f. 1r).
   
• This verse rendering of Boccaccio by Petroni does not appear ever to have been published. The dedication mentions the earlier (complete) rendition in verse by Vincenzo Brugiantino, published in 1554.
   
• Bookseller's notes (H.P. Kraus) on file in the Library.
   

Extent

146 leaves : 259 x 192 (158 x 120) mm. bound to 267 x 202 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii + 146 + ii; [1-146]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern half leather, probably later than the text. Cover split at outer hinges. Upper cover slightly loose; lower cover nearly detached. Cover peeling off at spine, worn at edges. Various minor stains on leaves. Some slight oxidation of ink.

Script

Written in a cursive script by two different hands. Includes many erasures, with numerous words and whole verses written in, apparently by Petroni.

Provenance

• Sold in the Giuseppe Martini collection to H. P. Kraus (New York), ca. 1948.
   
• Sold by H. P. Kraus (New York), 1960.
   

Subjects topical

• Italian literature
• Italian poetry

Genres

• Codices
• Poems
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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