Details

Other Title:

Ragionamento d'amore.
Perche tutte l'operatione del' huomo tendono a qualche fine.

Subjects:

Accademic fiorentina.
Speeches, addresses, etc., Italian.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Speeches.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Text of a speech by Lorenzo Giacomini Tebalducci Malespini.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from heading (f. 1r).
Title and attribution also written on upper cover in a contemporary or slightly later hand. There the title is spelled "Ragionamento d'amore."
Incipit (f. 1r): Perche tutte l'operationi del' huomo tendono a qualche fine ...
Foliation: Paper, 46; [ii], 1-44; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, possibly in the autograph of the author.
Binding: Contemporary parchment with remains of parchment ties. Cover slightly worn and splitting at spine. Some smudges and stains. Slight oxidation of ink in places.
Origin: Written in Florence, last quarter of 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
This speech appears to have remained unpublished.
Laid into the manuscript was a copy of a letter from Prof. Enzo Orvieto of the University of Pennsylvania Romance Languages Department, dated 1 March 1967, in which Prof. Orvieto states that he has obtained a photocopy of the manuscript and is studying it for research and possible publication. This letter is on file in the Library.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Gozzini sale (no. 1045), 1925.

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. 130 (Ms. Italian 182).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 333

OCLC:

155964380