Details

Subjects:

Italian poetry -- 16th century.
Italian poetry.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

One hundred and eleven sonnets and madrigals, five canzoni in ottava rima, and one letter (f. 36), mostly by Gaspare Torelli, including poems in honor of Giulio de Medici; Annibal Caro; Cardinal Vitelli; Lucrezia de Medici; Vincent Malpighi; the Duke of Alba; to a lady "Beatrice," and "Camilla"; Francesco di Medici (at the occasion of his death in 1562); Eleonora di Don Pietro di Toledo, duchessa di Fiorenza [+ 1562]; etc., with manuscript corrections [autograph of Torelli?]. Besides Torelli, the following authors' names appear: Antonio Renieri (f. 9v), Francesco Topio (f. 16r), Giambattista Savello (f. 17v), Fabritio Ronconi (f. 80r, 86v), Timoteo Mucci (f. 81r).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Paper, 90; [i], 1-24, [25-89]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by two or more hands.
Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped morocco, missing the two clasps.
Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1563.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Piero Ginori-Conti (bookplate, f. i recto).

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 (2), The Library Chronicle 36, no. 1 (1970), p. 5-6 (Ms. Italian 221).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 446

Contributor:

Torelli, Guasparri, -approximately 1613.
Ginori Conti, Piero, 1865-1939, former owner.

OCLC:

155969419