Details

Subjects:

Italian poetry -- 17th century.
Italian poetry.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Drawings (visual works)
Poems.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Contains an introduction by Giulio Bandinelli, lecture by Tomaso Maria Squarci, a dialogue between Silvio Gori and Lodovico Sergardi (the founder of the academy, and prefect of St. Peter's, Siena), with poems, madrigals and "Parole della musica" by Agusto Gori, Ottavio Bandinelli, Muzio Ugurgieri, Scipione Savini, Adriano Ballati, Lodovico Sergardi, Antonio Piccolomini, Pandolfo Spannocchi, Agusto Chigi, Francesco Piccolomini, and Filippo Segardi.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 2r).
Foliation: Paper, iii (contemporary paper) + 34 + iii (contemporary paper); [1-34]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: Pen-and-ink drawing of emblem of the academy with their motto: Un raggio di beltà gli spiriti avviva (f. 1r).
Binding: Contemporary parchment.
Origin: Written in Siena, 13 June 1683 (f. 2r).

Penn Provenance:

Accessioned, 1961.

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. 128 (Ms. Italian 174).
M. Maylender, Storia delle accademie d'Italia, (Bologna, 1929), V, 375-376

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 406

Contributor:

Sergardi, Lodovico, 1660-1726.

OCLC:

155968564