Vernacular Culture and Greek Texts in Renaissance Florence: a Database of Florentine Vernacularizations of Greek texts (c. 1460-1500)

Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, II.IV.678

Item

Manuscript copy id

MC00000124 See all items with this value

Translator

Bartolomeo Della Fonte (Fonzio) See all items with this value

Work

Epistole di Phalari See all items with this value

Shelfmark

Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, II.IV.678 See all items with this value

Date

c. 1497, August (see fol. 22r, "cominca l’eticha d’Aristotile prima cominca il prolacho nella faccia di là seguente. È cominciata a dì viii d’agosto 1497 alle chorte di Simone del Naro mio suocero e tutto sie a lalde e onore di Dio e nostra salute"). See all items with this value

Seen

Yes

Material

Paper See all items with this value

Type of script

'mercantesca' See all items with this value

Internal description

Fols. 1-11r, Albertano da Brescia, Liber de doctrina dicendi et tacendi in vernacular.

Fols. 11r-22r, Epistole di Pahalari (vernacular translation by Bartolomeo Fonzio). The text ends after the rubric of the 16th epistle; the scribe wrote: «no le finischo perché le ttrovai in stanpa».

Fols. 22r-26r: Aristotle's Ethics in vernacular.

Fols. 26v-44r: Matteo Ridolfi, "Capitoli" in praise of Lorenzo il Magnifico.

Fols. 44r-49v; Castellano Castellani, "Meditazione della morte"

Fols. 49v-51r, three anonymous sonnets

Fols. 51r-58v. Luigi Pulci, "Confessione"

Notes

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