Franklin

Il Capitolo Fratesco.

Author/Creator:
Chiesa, Sebastiano, active 17th century.
Publication:
[Italy], [between 1600 and 1699]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
238 leaves : paper ; 287 x 197 mm bound to 309 x 212 mm
Status/Location:
Loading...

Get It

Details

Other Title:
Al luogo del capitolo assegnato arrivano i vocali à schere à schere si grida, e romoreggia in ogni lato.
Del poetico genio altri la vena cò Liquor d' Ippocrene e di Permesso.
Subjects:
Catholic Church -- Discipline.
Catholic Church.
Franciscans.
Discipline.
Franciscans -- In literature.
Franciscans -- Humor.
Italian literature.
Italian poetry.
Monasticism and religious orders -- Humor.
Monasticism and religious orders.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Poems.
Satires (literary works)
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.
Language:
Italian.
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 / ...
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 238 + ii (modern paper); [1-238]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in various italic and cursive scripts by at least three different hands.
Binding: Modern boards. Cover pulling away at upper hinge, tearing f. 1 in the process. Various stains. Edges of many leaves worn and fraying.
Origin: Written in Italy in the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
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.
Penn Provenance:
Formerly owned by Andrea Imperiale Lercari of Genoa (label, f. 1r).
Accessioned, 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. 113 (Ms. Italian 103).
Backer, Augustin de. Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus. Nouv. éd. par Carlos Sommervogel (Bruxelles: O. Schepens; Paris: A. Picard, 1890-1932 [Louvain: Editions de la Bibiothèque S.J., Collège Philosophique et Théologique, 1960]), II, 1124-1125. Describes a ms. of this text under the title "Il capitolo fratesco; poema di Tisabesano Sechia," with reference to mss. in London, Paris and Forli.
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 346
Contributor:
Lercari, Andrea Imperiale, 1623- former owner.
OCLC:
155964446