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Other Title:

Sonetti e poesie di vari autori.
Quando 'l di parte, & l'ombra il mondo cuopre.
Donna de' cui begl'occhi alto diletto.

Subjects:

Italian literature -- 16th century.
Italian literature.
Italian poetry -- 16th century.
Italian poetry.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Italian.

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Spine title: Bembo. Sonetti e poesie di vari autori.
Pagination: Paper, i (18th-century[?] paper) + 30 + i (18th-century[?] paper); 1-15, 15-59; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
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.
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.
Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1550 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

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

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. 99 (Ms. Italian 37).

Publications about:

Tani, Irene. Le rime di Bernardo Cappello: Edizione critica (Venice: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2018), p. 116.

Cited as:

Crestomazia di poeti italiani del Cinquecento (Ms. Codex 279). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Contributor:

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.
Varchi, Benedetto, 1503-1565, addressee.

OCLC:

155964252

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