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Letters addressed to Pietro Vettori : manuscript, 1563-1585.

Author/Creator:
Vettori, Pietro, 1499-1585.
Publication:
1563-1585.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
7 items (8 leaves) : paper ; 34 cm
Status/Location:
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Subjects:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Demetrius. On style.
Form/Genre:
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Language:
In Italian.
Summary:
Original letters, with seals or remains of seals. Formerly bound as part of a larger collection, the letters are foliated in pencil.
Contents:
1. Inquiry about a dance described by Statius, 23 Feb. 1585 / from Luca Alamanni, 1 leaf.
2. Transmitting "libbro di Varrone novamento stampato dal Grifio [Gryphius]", 6 May 1563 / from Giovanni Battista Minutoli, 1 leaf.
3. On Vettori's commentary to Demetrius' Liber de elocutione, etc., 25 Nov. 1574 / from Marco Antonio Dovizi, 1 leaf.
4. On business affairs in France, 15 Oct. 1575 / from Marco Antonio Dovizi, 1 leaf.
5. Describing trip from Bologna to Carcassone, with references to visit to mathematician Francesco Ottonaio, Cardinal Orsini, [et. al]; to Huguenot disturbances; a revision of Terence; work on Cicero; the writings of Isocrates and Demosthenes; to French language and grammar; etc., 2 Apr. 1573 / from Carlo Rucellai, 2 leaves.
6. On translation of Cicero into Tuscan, 22 May 1573 / from Carlo Rucellai, 1 leaf.
7. On Vettori's reputation in France, 1 Apr. 1578 / from Lelio Ubaldini, 1 leaf.
Penn Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, part of ms. 11026.
Purchased.
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), Supplement A (2), Library Chronicle 36 (1970), p. 11-12 (Ms. Italian 245).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Coll. 196
Contributor:
Alamanni, Luca.
Dovizi, Marco Antonio.
Minutoli, Giovanni Battista.
Rucellai, Carlo.
Ubaldini, Lelio.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
OCLC:
155985533