Details

Subjects:

Satire.
Italian drama -- 18th century.
Italian drama.
Italian poetry -- 18th century.
Italian poetry.
Italian literature -- 18th century.
Italian literature.
Religious poetry, Italian.

Form/Genre:

Satire.
Codices.
Elegies.
Librettos (documents for music)
Poems.
Satires (literary works)
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian, with some Latin.

Summary:

Volume is a composite consisting of several parts written in different hands, on different sizes of paper. Most poems have no indication of authors except Vai (f. 12r, f. 32r-35r); Giovanni Batt. Ricciardi (f. 12v-28r; 35v-47r); Francesco Melosi (f. 29r-31r); Malatesti (f. 48r-50v); N.N. (directed against "raccolta Panciatichi," f. 93r-96v); note on otherwise blank f. 117v "Accademia del P. Pellegrino Batolozzi."

Contents:

1. f.1r-5r: La dulcinea trionfante [unfinished pastoral romance in prose].
2. f.12v-50v: Miscellaneous poetry [religious verse, odes, epigrams, etc.] by several authors.
3. f.53r-60v: Serenata à quattro: soprano, soprano, contralto, tenore [libretti for serenades, dramatic dialogues].
4. f.61r-113v: Miscellaneous poetry including satirical sonnets regarding the betrothal of Sig. Niccolò Panciatichi (f.93-94) and a bestiary in verse (f.98-113).
5. f.119r-123r: Stravaganza di nostro tempo [satire, intended for music?].
6. f.124r-129r: Miscellaneous sonnets and poetry.
7. f.131r-133v: Canzonetta.
8. f.136r-140r: Madrigali.
9. 141r-147v: Religious and other verse, including Stabat Mater Dolorosa, (f. 145).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from spine.
Foliation: Paper, 153; [ii], 1-148, [149 blank]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in various scripts by more than 20 different hands.
Binding: Quarter parchment. Some sections have water damage and/or sections torn from the bottom corner, resulting in the loss of some text.
Origin: Written in Italy [Florence?], 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1971.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800. Supplement A (5), The Library Chronicle 37, no. 2 (1971), p. 114 (Ms. Italian 254).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 477

Contributor:

Del Ricciardi, Giovanni Battista, 1623-1686.

OCLC:

155964906