XX (2022)

Messina, Centro Internazionale di Studi Umanistici, 2022, 286 pp., tavv. VIII; 25 cm.
ISSN 2035-3774

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SOMMARIO

Vincenzo Fera, Nodi ecdotici petrarcheschi: il caso di prestringere/perstringere
Silvia Fiaschi, Un ritrovato codice aragonese di Silvestro Galeota per il duca Pierre II de Bourbon: cronaca di una scoperta
Luigi Orlandi, Sull’epigramma greco-latino in morte di Bessarione
Paola de Capua, Filippo Beroaldo e la descrizione della villa di Pontecchio di Mino de’ Rossi
Paola Megna, Dalla versione omerica alla filologia dei Miscellanea: Poliziano vs Merula
Giovanni Cascio, Intarsi lucanei. Il pianto di Cesare nell’Itinerarium petrarchesco

TESSERE
S. Rocchi, Accursiana IV. Carmi latini epigrafici angioini all’Aquila (Fontana della Rivera e Porta Barete)
G. Cascio, ‘Itinerari’ fantasma fra Petrarca e Boccaccio
S. Pagliaroli, Una notizia di Mario Correggi su Leonello II Pio di Carpi
P. Megna, Poliziano, Cicerone e la profezia di Calcante (Il. 2, 299-330)
P. Megna, Per la fortuna umanistica degli Pneumatica di Erone Alessandrino

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VINCENZO FERA, Nodi ecdotici petrarcheschi: il caso di pre-stringere/perstringere
The article maps the presence of the verbs ‘prestringere’ and ‘perstringere’ in Petrarch’s work, which were rarely used in fourteenth-century Latin literature. The findings of the research are significant for the constitutio of Petrarchan texts.

SILVIA FIASCHI, Un ritrovato codice aragonese di Silvestro Galeota per il duca Pierre II de Bourbon: cronaca di una scoperta
This essay illustrates the relevant discovery of a hitherto unknown Aragonese manuscript, commissioned by Ferrante of Aragon for the Duke Pierre II de Bourbon in 1481, found in Fermo at the Biblioteca del Seminario Arcivescovile ‘F. De Angelis’. The paper provides a detailed description of its material aspects, with particular regard to the sumptuous binding, an authentic masterpiece and a unicum in the sphere of the surviving Aragonese bindings. It reconstructs the historical and cultural context of reference for its production, and analyses its contents, which transmit a hitherto unknown consilium de podagra by the royal archiater Silvestro Galeota, a prestigious figure at Ferrante’s court, but of whom no literary evidence has been known so far.

LUIGI ORLANDI, Sull’epigramma greco-latino in morte di Bessarione
The article aims at solving important issues surrounding the poem dedicated to Cardinal Bessarion on his death. Although it is well-known, a few aspects concerning the text and its transmission are yet unclear, the main one being its authorship. With the help of some clues arising from the study of the manuscript transmission, it is possible to get to the solution. A critical edition of the Greek and Latin versions of the poem, an Italian translation, and explanatory notes are also provided.

PAOLA DE CAPUA, Filippo Beroaldo e la descrizione della villa di Pontecchio di Mino de’ Rossi
The essay re-reads the well-known description of Mino de’ Rossi’s Ponticulan villa within Filippo Beroaldo’s commentary on Apuleius. By focusing on cultural, political and social themes, intertwined with the research itineraries of the Bolognese humanist, the A. highlights a new and original outcome in the traditional rhetorical device of ecphrasis.

PAOLA MEGNA, Dalla versione omerica alla filologia dei Miscellanea: Poliziano vs Merula
The essay reviews various remarks about Homeric criticism in Poliziano’s writings, focusing on chapter 40 of the second Miscellanea, which deals with the exegesis of quadrupes in Ter. Andria 865. Starting from a passage of Heliodore/Oribase’s De ligaturis, Poliziano addresses the problem of technical and scientific vocabulary, including Homeric lexicon, in the Aristotelian translations by Theodore Gaza: the chapter is an interesting, hitherto neglected, episode of his polemic with Giorgio Merula.

GIOVANNI CASCIO, Intarsi lucanei. Il pianto di Cesare nell’Itinerarium petrarchesco
The article proposes a new interpretation of a particularly cryptic passage of the Itinerarium by Francesco Petrarca. The author demonstrates how the episode in which Caesar is depicted in tears at the sight of Pompey’s severed head, while the Fortuna populi romani mourns the headless torso of the Roman leader, can be explained as a mosaic of tiles taken from several books of Lucan’s Bellum civile. Furthermore, the ascertainment of the peculiar ideological function of the iunctura ‘Fortuna populi romani’ contributes to a better understanding of the passage.

STEFANO ROCCHI, Accursiana IV. Carmi latini epigrafici angioini all’Aquila (Fontana della Rivera e Porta Barete)
This paper provides a critical edition of three medieval carmina latina epigraphica
from L’Aquila (Abruzzo), carefully copied by Mariangelo Accursio within his epigraphical
notes as important documents of the early urban development of the town.
The A. also shows how the humanist made use of these inscriptions to prove
Biondo’s and Pontano’s theories wrong about the origin of L’Aquila.

GIOVANNI CASCIO, ‘Itinerari’ fantasma fra Petrarca e Boccaccio
The article deals with two little-known episodes regarding the reception of Petrarch’s
‘Itinerarium’ in the 16th-17th centuries. Some peculiarities of the manu –
script tradition led to two mistakes, by attributing to Giovanni Boccaccio an
imaginative Itinerary to the Sepulchre of Petrarch, and by making Petrarch himself
the author of a second ‘Itinerary’.

STEFANO PAGLIAROLI, Una notizia di Mario Correggi su Leonello II Pio di Carpi
An annotation in the manuscript Vat. Ott. lat. 1966, written by Mario Correggi from
Mirandola, enables the A. to establish the death date of Leonello II Pio, father of
Alberto III, Aldus Manutius’s pupil in Carpi.

PAOLA MEGNA, Dalla versione omerica alla filologia dei Miscellanea: Poliziano vs Merula
In his youthful version of the Iliad, Poliziano borrows Cicero’s translation (De div.
2, 63-64) of Il. 2, 299-300, i. e. Ulysses’ account of Calchas’ prophecy, which Cicero
mistakenly attributed to Agamennon: the essay reconstructs the humanist’s extensive
study on this passage, which he collated and corrected in his incunabulum of Cicero’s
writings, and also used in chapter 53 of the first Miscellanea, devoted to Cicero’s
errata memoriae.

PAOLA MEGNA, Per la fortuna umanistica degli Pneumatica di Erone Alessandrino
The essay examines some aspects of the manuscript tradition of Hero of Alexandria’s
Pneumatica in the 15th century; the analysis of the quotations from this work
in chapter 97 of the first Miscellanea and in the Panepistemon shows that Poliziano
probably had access to a manuscript of the Pnemautica that is now lost.

XIX (2021)

Messina, Centro Internazionale di Studi Umanistici, 2021, 320 pp., 25 cm.
ISSN 2035-3774

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SOMMARIO

Aldo Onorato, Il volgarizzamento dell’ultima epistola di Coluccio Salutati a Giovanni da San Miniato
Giuseppe Nastasi, Natale Conti traduttore del Περὶ σχημάτων di Alessandro

L’OPERA DI PETRARCA. CANTIERI DI LAVORO. Seminario internazionale (Messina, Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti, 20-21 febbraio 2020)

Silvia Rizzo, Personaggi ‘nascosti’ negli epistolari di Petrarca
Silvia Rizzo, L’epistola di Lombardo della Seta a destinatario ignoto
Péter Ertl, Fra Giovanni Colonna e una ignota redazione γ della Familiare II 9
Marco Petoletti, Il De vita solitaria e le sue fonti nascoste
Sara Vetturelli, Il portale Petrarca online
Paola Vecchi Galli, Per le Rime disperse di Francesco Petrarca: un colpo d’occhio sul ms. parmense 1081
Giulia Perucchi, Il maestro di Cicerone. Per l’esegesi di Rem. I 80
Giulia Perucchi, Nuove prospettive sul De remediis utriusque Fortune (con l’edizione di Rem. I 80-81 e II 39-40)

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ALDO ONORATO, Il volgarizzamento dell’ultima epistola di Coluccio Salutati a Giovanni da San Miniato
Coluccio Salutati’s last epistle to Giovanni da San Miniato (25 January ‹1404›), which closes a heated dispute with the Camaldolese monk and represents the theoretical summa of the great humanist’s defense of ancient poets and classics, was translated into Italian vernacular by Nicolò Castellani in the first decades of the fifteenth century. This poor work has come down to us through a single manuscript (Florence, Bibl. Riccardiana, 1939), unfortunately marred by numerous errors only partially amended by the edition prepared without any philological rigor by Casimiro Stolfi in 1867. My essay makes available to scholars the first critical edition of Castellani’s Italian vernacular translation, which is now finally purged of mendes and omissions and, thus, allows a detailed examination of its features and of its impact on the fortune of Salutati’s epistolary short treatise.

SILVIA RIZZO, Personaggi ‘nascosti’ negli epistolari di Petrarca
Drawing on her work towards a chronology of Petrarch’s life for the portal Petrarca online, the author suggests connections between different mentions of persons unknown, which can lead to their identification or at least to better knowledge of them. The persons discussed are Giovanni Mandelli; Francesco di Giovanni da Firenze; ‘Martinus theutonus semitalus’, who travelled between Venice and Prague.

SILVIA RIZZO, L’epistola di Lombardo della Seta a destinatario ignoto
In 1961 E. Pellegrin discovered a letter of Lombardo Della Seta, and in 1963 she found it in another manuscript. It was published in 1964 by Billanovich-Pellegrin and then again by Billanovich in 1966. The present paper gives a new critical edition with translation and commentary. The letter, which yields a large amount of valuable information about the fate of Petrarch’s works after his death, does not name the addressee. The first editors argued that it was addressed to Giovanni Dondi dall’Orologio and consequently suggested a date of 1380 or 1381. The identification with Dondi was rejected by Martellotti, who dated the letter to 1376 or 1377. The year 1377 was supported by Fera with arguments from the tradition of Africa. The present paper accepts 1377 and tentatively proposes for the addressee the name of Donato degli Albanzani.

PÉTER ERTL, Fra Giovanni Colonna e una ignota redazione γ della Familiare II 9
The aim of this study is to compare a short passage of Giovanni Colonna’s Mare historiarum (VII 78) with Petrarch’s Familiares II 9, 26, with the intention of proving that the historical work of the learned friar contains a fragment of the precanonical redaction of the epistle, which was abundantly reworked by Petrarch in the early 1350s.

MARCO PETOLETTI, Il De vita solitaria e le sue fonti nascoste
Petrarch worked many years to compose his De vita solitaria: the dedication copy was sent to Philippe de Cabassole in 1366, twenty years after he began to write this treatise. Identifications of sources and information obtainable from Petrarch’s correspondence allow to discover the progressive increase of De vita solitaria, as it was furthered by new readings. Especially in order to sketch biographical portraits of the viri illustres solitarii in book II, Petrarch drew on a large stock of patristic and medieval sources. Hagiographic texts, including the Martyrology of Usuardus, prooved to be relevant for this topic and their study sheds light on a section of Petrarch’s library, which was left little investigated up to now.

PAOLA VECCHI GALLI, Per le Rime disperse di Francesco Petrarca: un colpo d’occhio sul ms. parmense 1081
In the light of the latest proposals of criticism and philology on so called Petrarch’s ‘rime disperse’, this paper formulates some general reflections on Ms. Parmense 1081, emphasizing its Tuscan origin, the hybrid contents and the unreliable aspect regarding the attributions, and making some methodological questions related to the catalogue of these poems.

GIULIA PERUCCHI, Il maestro di Cicerone. Per l’esegesi di Rem. I 80
This paper sets out to shed light on the meaning of an obscure passage in the dialogue The Excellent Teacher included in Petrarch’s De remediis utriusque Fortune (I 80). In a short list of ancient authors who either had no distinguished teachers to learn from or surpassed them, Petrarch dismissively mentions Cicero’s preceptor: in their commentaries previous scholars have never tried to establish his identity. This contribution suggests that Cicero’s mediocre teacher is A. Licinius Archias, the poet he defended in the famous oration discovered by Petrarch himself in 1333.

GIULIA PERUCCHI, Nuove prospettive sul De remediis utriusque Fortune (con l’edizione di Rem. I 80-81 e II 39-40)
This paper focuses on four chapters of Petrarch’s De remediis utriusque Fortune (I 80-81 and II 39-40) concerning the world of the school, pupils and teachers. The first section offers an Introduction to the content of the dialogues and to Petrarch’s perspectives on teaching and learning; the second consists of a new examination of the manuscript tradition. The study of a selection of witnesses has made it possible to formulate a new theory about the evolution of De remediis and its textual transmission: here for the first time, a new version – older than those known until now – is identified. A significant group of author’s variants is analysed with close attention. The article also provides an edition of the Latin text with an Italian translation and commentary.

XVIII (2020)

Messina, Centro Internazionale di Studi Umanistici, 2020, 408 pp., tavv. VIII; 25 cm.
ISSN 2035-3774

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SOMMARIO

Vincenzo Fera, Archeologia di Valchiusa: «Chiare, fresche et dolci acque»
Stefano Rocchi, Accursiana I. Il ciclo epigrammatico della Fuggerkapelle ad Augsburg

LA TRASMISSIONE DEI TESTI GRECI E LATINI DAL MANOSCRITTO ALLA STAMPA.
Atti del convegno, Milano, 11 dicembre 2018

Stefano  Martinelli  Tempesta, La trasmissione dei testi greci e latini dal manoscritto alla stampa. Considerazioni introduttive
Antonio  Rollo, La tradizione umanistica dei graeca di Svetonio
Luigi Orlandi, Preistoria  di un’edizione mancata: il Macrobio di Gaza e Bussi
David Speranzi, La princeps di Omero per i Medici. Bibliologia e storia di un esemplare di dedica

TESSERE
G. Perucchi, Versi per i libri: l’epigramma di Petrarca nei Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis di Macrobio
C. Gazzini, La fonte delle citazioni aristoteliche in una lettera di Crisolora a Manuele II Paleologo: il ms. Vat. gr. 1342
S. Pagliaroli, Nota sulle lettere di «Agnelius Salernitanus» e di Antonio Beccadelli nel Vat. lat. 2906
S. Pagliaroli, Lorenzo Valla e Quintiliano. Un nuovo manoscritto con postille di origine valliana (Toulouse, Bibliothèque d’étude et du Patrimoine, 2865)
D. Gionta, Il De bello et pace. Un’opera ritrovata del giurista romano Andrea Santacroce
D. Gionta, Una nuova testimonianza manoscritta della Monarchia dantesca: il codice VIII G 54 della Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli

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VINCENZO FERA, Archeologia di Valchiusa: «Chiare, fresche et dolci acque»
This article analyses Petrarch’s poem ‘Chiare, fresche et dolci acque’ (Rvf 126), whose composition can be dated after Laura’s death, around 1350. It focuses on the poems’ structural mechanisms, through which a subtle narrative is identified. In particular, research is conducted on the iunctura «imagine vera» (l. 60), the description of the rain of flowers inspired by the scenery in Valchiusa (ll. 40-52), the strong links with Rvf 125, the connection with Dante’s Purgatory XXX, and the temporal dimension which runs through the whole poem.

STEFANO ROCCHI, Accursiana I. Il ciclo epigrammatico della Fuggerkapelle ad Augsburg
This paper demonstrates that the texts of the four inscriptions in honour of Ulrich, Georg, and Jakob Fugger carved below the so-called Epitaphien in the Fuggerkapelle in Augsburg were written by Mariangelo Accursio between 1530 and 1533, when he repeatedly sojourned in Augsburg. I offer a critical edition of Accursio’s original drafts as well as of texts carved in the Fuggerkapelle. I further propose some observations on the contents of Accursio’s manuscripts which are kept in the Ambrosiana Library of Milan (O 125 sup., D 420 inf., O 148 sup.) and on his epigraphical methodology.

ANTONIO ROLLO, La tradizione umanistica dei graeca di Svetonio
The article focuses on Manuel Chrysoloras’ restoration, performed at the end of the 14th century, of the Greek passages  of Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars. Chrysoloras’ transcription of the Greek is preserved in MSS. Vall. B 26 and Laur. 20 sin. 3. Starting from the text defined by Chrysoloras, we trace the history of the transmission of Suetonius’ graeca during the fifteenth century up to the early sixteenth-century editions, highlighting both the solidity of the results achieved by the Byzantine scholar and the brilliant interventions through which Poliziano in particular succeeded in improving the text of the Greek passages, substantially undisputed in previous decades. A printed copy of the Caesars, densely annotated by Demetrius Chalcondyles, is presented in Appendix I, while Appendix II illustrates a list of  Suetonius’ graeca extrapolated from their context by Ciriaco d’Ancona.

LUIGI ORLANDI, Preistoria  di un’edizione mancata: il Macrobio di Gaza e Bussi
This paper aims to provide insight into the troubled history of the editio princeps of Macrobius’ Saturnalia, which was planned for publication in Rome in the 1460s at Konrad Sweynheym and Arnold Pannartz’ typography. As is known, this edition never appeared, and some scholars even went so far as to doubt the existence of preliminary works on the text. The discovery of autograph annotations added by the editors, Theodoros Gazes and Giovanni Andrea Bussi, in the manuscript Vat. lat. 1542 firstly makes it possible to demonstrate that the project was launched and developed to a certain extent. Furhermore, the analysis of Gazes and Bussi’s contributions gives us the opportunity to look at the methodology applied to prepare the printed edition. Some remarks on the reasons of the interruption of the work are given in the last part of the article.

DAVID SPERANZI, La princeps di Omero per i Medici. Bibliologia e storia di un esemplare di dedica
Bibliological and historical analysis of a luxury copy of the Homer editio princeps (Florence: Demetrios Damilas, Printer of Vergilius C. 6061, Bartolomeo de’ Libri, 9 dec. 1488 [text] / not before 1489 [dedication letter]), now held at Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Banco Rari 81. Printed on parchment, intended for the Medici family and decorated with a fine illumination attributed to the shop of Gherardo and Monte di Giovanni, the copy Banco Rari 81 presents some handwritten folios. Their scribe is here identified with Demetrios Damilas himself, involved also in the printing of the book.

G. PERUCCHI, Versi per i libri: l’epigramma di Petrarca nei Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis di Macrobio
This paper focuses on a Latin epygram written and signed by Petrarch on the last folio of his own copy of Macrobius’ Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis (ms. British Library, Harl. 5204). The study gives a new paleographical description, interpre-tation and traduction of the verses, in which Petrarch  introduced the content of Macrobius’ book itself.

C. GAZZINI, La fonte delle citazioni aristoteliche in una lettera di Crisolora a Manuele II Paleologo: il ms. Vat. gr. 1342
The article studies the quotations from Aristotle’s Ethics and Magna Moralia contained in the letter written by the Byzantine scholar Manuel Chrysoloras in reply to Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus’ funeral oration for the death of his brother Theodore. Through a comprehensive analysis, the study demonstrates that the source from which these references derive is the Vatican Library’s ms. Vat. gr. 1342, which belonged to and was extensively annotated by Chrysoloras himself. This conclusion is not only supported by philological considerations, but is also strengthened by the fact that, in more than one case, the references to Aristotle included in Chrysoloras’ epistle exactly reproduce the notes which he added for study’s use on the margins of Vat. gr. 1342.

S. PAGLIAROLI, Nota sulle lettere di «Agnelius Salernitanus» e di Antonio Beccadelli nel Vat. lat. 2906
The article examines the correspondence of the mysterious «Agnelius Salernitanus», handed down by the Vat. lat. 2906, and in it are recognized portions of letters by Antonio Panormita present in the same manuscript.

S. PAGLIAROLI, Lorenzo Valla e Quintiliano. Un nuovo manoscritto con postille di origine valliana (Toulouse, Bibliothèque d’étude et du Patrimoine, 2865)
News it is given of the discovery of a new manuscript of Quintilian (Toulouse, Bibl. d’étude e du Patrimoine, 2865) with marginal notes of vallian origin. The quintilianism of Lorenzo Valla is exemplified with the edition of a selection of tolosan annotations collated on the autographed ones in Par. Lat. 7723.

D. GIONTA, Il De bello et pace. Un’opera ritrovata del giurista romano Andrea Santacroce
The A. sheds light on a hitherto lost treatise De bello et pace composed by the jurist and humanist Andrea Santacroce. The newly discovered witness of this treatise (Napoli, Bibl. Nazionale, VIII G 54), a parchment illuminated manuscript, was written under the author’s supervision and shows his numerous autograph additions in the margins. Written in response to the pamphlet by Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo, De monarchia et origine principatus (1467), Santacroce’s work aims to reaffirm the legitimacy of the imperial rule. The Monarchy of Dante is the main source from which the jurist drew his arguments.

D. GIONTA, Una nuova testimonianza manoscritta della Monarchia dantesca: il codice VIII G 54 della Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli
It was unknown that two books of Dante’s Monarchy are preserved in the heart of Andrea Santacroce’s treatise De bello et pace, kept in the Biblioteca Nazionale in Napoli (ms. VIII G 54). This paper offers a first survey of this new witness, pointing out its close relationship with M and S, two manuscripts of the β4 sub-group.

XVII (2019)

Messina, Centro Internazionale di Studi Umanistici, 2019, 350 pp.; 25 cm.
ISSN 2035-3774

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SOMMARIO

Giovanni Cascio, Ferreto Ferreti e Albertino Mussato in morte di Benvenuto Campesani
Monica Berté, Le postille apografe di Petrarca a Svetonio nel Par. lat. 5808
Paola De Capua, Magnificenza estense. Giovanni Toscanella e le nozze di Leonello d’Este con Maria d’Aragona
Rossella Bianchi, Poesia umanistica a Ferrara: Daniele Fini tra autobiografia e cronaca
Valerio Sanzotta, Per Ficino e Filone d’Alessandria
Aurelio Malandrino, Bartolomeo Gamba e un’inedita silloge di lettere petrarchesche volgarizzate. Con l’edizione della Dispersa 27
Daniela Gionta, «A lume di lanterna piccolina». La lezione etica e civile di Carlo Dionisotti

TESSERE
M. Bandini, Diodoro Siculo alla scuola di Manuele Crisolora
A. Rollo, Chrysolorina IV
C. Gazzini, Spigolature vaticane: nuovi testimoni degli Erotemata di Crisolora
P. Megna, Poliziano tra Giovenale e Sinesio: gli excerpta del ms. BNCF II I 99

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GIOVANNI CASCIO, Ferreto Ferreti e Albertino Mussato in morte di Benvenuto Campesani
The article deals with a collection of Latin poems concerning the death of Benvenuto Campesani, traditionally attributed to the poet and historian from Vicenza, Ferreto Ferreti. The author, on the basis of new manuscript evidence and through an overall reassessment of the structure of the corpus and the contents of the individual poems, demonstrates that five of the six items must be assigned to the famous tragedian Albertino Mussato. As a consequence of this reconstruction, the collection is revealed to be a correspondence in verse between these two leading figures of early 14 th c. Italian literature.

MONICA BERTÉ, Le postille apografe di Petrarca a Svetonio nel Par. lat. 5808
The paper focuses on a copy, Par. lat. 5808, from a manuscript owned and annotated by Petrarch. In particular, the new apograph partially transmits the marginalia from the Oxford manuscript, Exeter College, 186, containing Suetonius’ De vita Caesarum and Ausonius’ Monosticha. Through an examination of this Parisian manuscript the A. identifies the copyist as well as date and place of the transcription, which probably occurred while Petrarch was still alive and with his approval. In addition, the article publishes all of the marginal notes which are transmitted in Petrarch’s original which is now mutilated, although it is not possible to establish with certainty the occurring of every annotations in the autograph manuscript.

PAOLA DE CAPUA, Magnificenza estense. Giovanni Toscanella e le nozze di Leonello d’Este con Maria d’Aragona
The paper illustrates a hitherto unpublished and almost unknown testimony of the long and opulent feasts for the wedding of Leonello d’Este and Maria d’Aragona, celebrated in Ferrara in April 1444: it’s a letter from the humanist Giovanni Toscanella, then secretary of Borso, to the best known friend Giovanni Aurispa, which sheds new light on the historical, artistic and cultural aspects of life at the Este court. In the Appendix, Toscanella’s letter is critically edited and translated into Italian.

ROSSELLA BIANCHI, Poesia umanistica a Ferrara: Daniele Fini tra autobiografia e cronaca
By editing and illustrating a selection of poems by the Ferrara humanist Daniele Fini, who collected them together with those of his friends in the autograph workbook Ferrara BCA cl. I 437 (of which the A. has already provided a detailed description in SMU 16, 2018, 169-206), the article highlights the typology of contents, forms and aims of Fini’s poetic production. It also adds new elements to the author’s biography and constitutes a useful contribution to the cultural environment in which he worked, as well as to some episodes in the history of Ferrara during the first half of the sixteenth century.

VALERIO SANZOTTA, PER Ficino e Filone d’Alessandria
Philo of Alexandria plays a central role in the Renaissance attempt at conciliating Platonic philosophy and the Bible. After a survey of Philo’s manuscript tradition, this paper particularly focuses on Marsilio Ficino, who made a large use of Philo, especially in his Compendium in Timeum, where he inserted two long quotations from De opificio mundi and De plantatione. Ficino aimed specifically at underlining the consonance of the cosmology in Plato’s Timaeus with the biblical account. Moreover, the textual features of both quotations allow us to identify the manuscript used by Ficino, now in the Laurenziana Library of Florence. Brought to Italy from Constantinople in 1427 by Francesco Filelfo, who sold it to Lorenzo de’ Medici before 1481, Philo’s codex was consulted by Ficino in Lorenzo’s private library, where also Poliziano, who left some marginal notes, might have had access on it.

AURELIO MALANDRINO, Bartolomeo Gamba e un’inedita silloge di lettere petrarchesche volgarizzate. Con l’edizione della Dispersa 27
The article deals with the manuscript It. XI 197 (= 7600), held by the Marciana Library (Venice). The codex is written by the 19 th century scholar Bartolomeo Gamba and consists in the draft of a miscellany of Italian translations from Petrarch’s Lettere disperse. After describing the manuscript, the paper focuses on the Latin text of the Disp. 27 (= Var. 26) and compares it with the unpublished translation by Giovanni Antonio Moschini, which is included in the codex, and with the one made by Giuseppe Fracassetti. In the Appendix, an unknown Gamba’s letter to Domenico Rossetti is edited.

DANIELA GIONTA, «A lume di lanterna piccolina». La lezione etica e civile di Carlo Dionisotti
This article highlights the content and the context of the commemoration for Don Giuseppe De Luca, written by Carlo Dionisotti in 1962. Published in three different versions over the years, this text played a pivotal role in Dionisotti’s literary, political and civil vision: in 1967, he even planned to include it, as the final essay, in his most prominent collection, Geografia e storia della letteratura italiana. An Appendix contains the first version, published on the Vatican newspaper «L’Osservatore Romano» (16-17 April 1962).

M. BANDINI, Diodoro Siculo alla scuola di Manuele Crisolora
This paper places a new manuscript, Vat. gr. 996 of Diodorus Siculus, among the Greek manuscripts brought by Manuel Chrysoloras to Florence in 1397. It also suggests the attribution of Laur. 70, 16 and other manuscripts to Roberto de’ Rossi, one of the first Italian pupils of Chrysoloras.

A. ROLLO, Chrysolorina IV
This article provides a description of new manuscripts of Chrysoloras’ Erotemata and discusses some readings of the critical edition of this grammar’s original text, confirming or correcting them.

C. GAZZINI, Spigolature vaticane: nuovi testimoni degli Erotemata di Crisolora
This contribution presents four documents of the Apostolic Vatican Library, which are relevant to the history of the transmission and reception of Manuel Chrysoloras’ Erotemata. So far unknown and described here for the first time, the fifteenth-century manuscripts Vat. gr. 2145 and 2267 are two witnesses to the compendium of Chrysoloras’ grammar. The two factitious codices Vat. gr. 2300 and 2275, by contrast, preserve hitherto unknown evidence for yet other versions: the former a new autograph fragmentary copy of the Erotemata’s abridged redaction by Sozomenus of Pistoia, and the latter a previously unrecognized rewriting of Chrysoloras’ grammar, which is here attributed to Ambrogio Traversari.

P. MEGNA, Poliziano tra Giovenale e Sinesio: gli excerpta del ms. BNCF II I 99
This paper shows how Angelo Poliziano was the first to identify a locus parallelus from Synesius’ correspondence (Ep. 5) in his exegesis of Iuv. 13, 162-63, but his intuition remained unknown until the XIX th century. It also focuses on Poliziano’s excerpta from Synesius’ works in the ms. BNCF II I 99 and on its manuscript sources, thus enlightening some aspects of Synesius’ reception in the XVth century.

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Giovanni Cascio, La più antica redazione delle Invective contra medicum: un nuovo testimone
Péter Ertl, Problemi ecdotici ed esegetici in epistole del Petrarca
Valerio Sanzotta, «E Bizantia Florentiam spiritus eius advolavit»: gli Argumenta in decem Platonis dialogos di Marsilio Ficino
Rossella Bianchi, Lo zibaldone poetico dell’umanista ferrarese Daniele Fini (Ferrara, Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea, I 437)
Matteo Stefani, I prolegomeni di Bonaventura Vulcanius alla Ciropedia di Senofonte

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F. Forner, Nuove fonti per l’epistolario del cardinale Enea Silvio Piccolomini
S. Pagliaroli, Nuove lettere di Giano Lascari e Giustino Decadio a Francesco II Gonzaga
L. Silvano, Una scheda per Giorgio Valla traduttore (Callimaco, epigr. 23 Pfeiffer)
S. Pagliaroli, Un nuovo autografo di Pietro Bembo

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Giovanni Cascio, La più antica redazione delle Invective contra medicum: un nuovo testimone
The subject of the article is a manuscript (Klosterneuburg, Augustiner-Chorherrenstift,
CCl 204 [=K]), which preserves the first redaction of the Invective contra medicum
by Petrarch. Until now, this early version of the tract directed against an
insolent physician, whose identity remains unknown, has been edited on the basis of
one testimony only (Gdańsk, Polska Akademia Nauk Biblioteka Gdańska, Mar. F.
256). The recovery of K not only allows for a more accurate text of the original Invectiva
to be established, but also sheds new light on the complex and manifold redactional
history of the work.

Péter Ertl, Problemi ecdotici ed esegetici in epistole del Petrarca
This article focuses on Petrarch’s collections of prose letters, with the aim of identifying
and analyzing a series of citations and reminiscences in the Liber sine nomine
and the Seniles that are not reported in the current editions of the two works, as well
as proposing an amendment to the text of the critical edition of Sine nomine IX, 8.
Moreover, an error found in the modern translations of Familiares XIII 4, 12 concerning
the identification of the Roman heroes is also corrected.

Valerio Sanzotta, «E Bizantia Florentiam spiritus eius advolavit»: gli Argumenta in decem Platonis dialogos di Marsilio Ficino
Ficino’s translation of Plato represents an unprecedented tipping point in the intellectual
panorama of the XVth century, not only because it brought Plato’s unknown
corpus back to the public, but mainly because Ficino was the first to commit
himself to a comprehensive interpretation of Plato’s text with his argumenta and
full commentaries. After presenting the history of Ficino’s translation of Plato’s
corpus, this contribution focuses on the argumenta to the first ten dialogues translated
for Cosimo de’ Medici in 1464, which are preserved in an autograph manuscript,
now separated in two parts. The hermeneutic tools Ficino used in his
interpretation of Plato are an object of special attention: by analysing the sources
of these argumenta, it is possible to discern how Ficino’s interpretative tools were
already by this time fully formed in their essential structure, not only regarding the
Latin authors, but also the Greek. The reader is also provided with a critical edition
of the first ten argumenta, together with sources and critical apparatus.

Rossella Bianchi, Lo zibaldone poetico dell’umanista ferrarese Daniele Fini (Ferrara, Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea, I 437)
The aim of this paper is to offer an analytical description of the ms. Ferrara, BCA I
437, a voluminous, autograph workbook of the Ferrara humanist Daniele Fini, who
collected in it a large number of his and his humanist friends’ poems during the first
half of the sixteenth century (by 1539). Through the clarification of the collection’s
origin, development, content the A. sheds new light on Fini’s literary profile, as well
as on some aspects and figures of the cultural environment in which he worked.

Matteo Stefani, I prolegomeni di Bonaventura Vulcanius alla Ciropedia di Senofonte
The paper provides the first critical edition of Bonaventura Vulcanius’ prolegomena
to a course on Xenophon’s Cyropaedia taught at Leiden University in 1584. The text
is based on Vulcanius’ autograph in the ms. Leiden, Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit,
Vulc. 9, ff. 42r-44v.

F. ForNEr, Nuove fonti per l’epistolario del cardinale Enea Silvio Piccolomini
The new edition of the letters written by Enea Silvio Piccolomini when he was a
cardinal brings to light a vast correspondence which was not included in the collection
built by his nephews. They, for example, omitted the texts of the correspondence
between him and the Balia of Siena. These letters describe, among other
things, the private interests of the future Pius II, sometimes in contrast with those
of the political elite of his homeland. The letters we publish here, from the Count
Orlov’s manuscript collection, outline part of Goro Lolli’s judicial events, the future
most trusted collaborators of the Pope.

S. PAGLIAroLI, Nuove lettere di Giano Lascari e Giustino Decadio a Francesco
II Gonzaga
This essay provides a first edition of the letters – written in the years 1503, 1505
and 1506 by the Greek humanists Ianus Laskaris and Iustinus Dekadyos – held at
the State Archive of Mantua.

L. SILVANo, Una scheda per Giorgio Valla traduttore (Callimaco, epigr. 23 Pfeiffer)
This article focuses on a Latin translation of Callimachus’ epigram 23 Pf., possibly
the work of Giorgio Valla (1447-1500). The only known copy of it is written on a
leaf inserted in an exemplar of the 1549 Basel edition of the Greek Anthology (ed.
Jean Brodeau) now in the Cornell University Library. The A. provides an edition
of the text and a brief commentary, taking into account other 15th-16th century Latin
translations of the same epigram.

S. PAGLIAroLI, Un nuovo autografo di Pietro Bembo
This essay is a study on the oldest letters written by Pietro Bembo. It also provides
a new analysis of a letter by his father Bernardo (1502), held at the State archive
of Mantua, which the humanist had copied with some spelling peculiarities.

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Caterina Malta, «Pretransformari studeo». In margine a Triumphus Fame I
Michelangelo Zaccarello, «Come d’asse si trae chiodo con chiodo» (Triumphus Cupidinis III 66). Un’immagine di Petrarca fra Cicerone e Dante
Carla M. Monti, Gli esordi del pensiero politico signorile di Petrarca: i testi per Azzo da Correggio e Luchino Visconti
Aurelio Malandrino, Intorno ai codici petrarcheschi latini della Biblioteca Marciana
Fabio Forner, Petrarca a Verona: alcune considerazioni sui manoscritti petrarcheschi della Biblioteca Capitolare e della Biblioteca Civica
Lisa Ciccone, Petrarca parum prudens in un commento quattrocentesco all’Ars poetica di Orazio
Arnaldo Soldani, La forma sintattica dei sonetti di Sannazaro
Laura Facini, Il petrarchismo di Garcilaso. Alcune letture intertestuali (sonn. IV, XII, XV, XXII, XXVI)
Massimo Natale, Tasso e le canzoni degli occhi: in margine a Rime 1449-1451
Giovanni Cascio, Francesco Petrarca tra Jakob Heerbrand e Sigmund Ernhoffer: un episodio della ‘fortuna’ del Liber sine nomine nell’Europa della Riforma
Uberto Motta, Il gentiluomo innamorato: Petrarca, Castiglione, Shakespeare
Luca Mazzoni, Il Petrarca sconosciuto: l’edizione bodoniana di Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta e Triumphi (1799)
Antonio Rollo, Un Tetravangelo appartenuto a Manuele Crisolora e una nota con la sua data di nascita
Antonino Antonazzo, Gli excerpta pliniani di Landino
Stefano Pagliaroli, Giano Lascari, Venezia, Mantova e uno sconosciuto θησαυρός di lettere autografe
Paola de Capua, Tra Giano Vitale, Pietro Corsi e Niccolò Ridolfi
Giovanni Cascio, Due prolusioni di Demetrio Calcondila nella biblioteca di Hartmann Schedel

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Caterina Malta, «Pretransformari studeo». In margine a Triumphus Fame I
The article proposes a new critical text of the marginal notes added by Petrarch at the beginning of his original working copy of Triumphus Fame I and borne witness to in 16th-century copies. The textual restoration makes it possible to offer a more certain interpretation of their metapoetic meaning. The annotations are thus connected to the Augustinian theme of mutatio, in line with the moral and philosophical developments in the post-Secretum period.

Michelangelo Zaccarello, «Come d’asse si trae chiodo con chiodo» (Triumphus Cupidinis III 66). Un’immagine di Petrarca fra Cicerone e Dante
Among the exempla of lovers cited in Triumphus Cupidinis (III 66), Petrarch describes the Persian king Assuero marrying the prophetess Esther as «pulling a nail out of the wood with another nail»; in their order, the succession of rhyme-words that he uses hints at a direct reprise of the famous dialogue between Dante and Bonagiunta Orbicciani on the advent of a new lyric poetry (Purg. XXIV 51-57). Collecting various examples of this metaphor, from Greek literature to the Bible, from Cicero to Carmina Burana, this essay attempts to assess the general value of its meaning, with special attention to Dante. In a letter by St Jerome, the new love object introduced by the nail metaphor is deemed more deserving that the abandoned one; conversely, the lover moves on to a new feeling through a process of moral regeneration. The essay suggests that, via the nail metaphor, the Dantean view of the ‘sweet style’ may also be read in the same terms.

Carla M. Monti, Gli esordi del pensiero politico signorile di Petrarca: i testi per Azzo da Correggio e Luchino Visconti
Petrarch’s political thought is plainly in favour of the signory and this is well apparent from texts he wrote for Azzo da Correggio and Luchino Visconti, where the reasons of his disputed decision to live in Milan are made clear. The basic points are: monarchical government is better than government of many factions; political horizon must not sight city-state but Italy; supreme good to be pursued is peace; the prince has to be literate and protector of men of letters. Texts discussed are Dispersa 21, RVF CXXVIII, Fam. III 7 and VII 15, Epyst. II 11 and III 6.

Aurelio Malandrino, Intorno ai codici petrarcheschi latini della Biblioteca Marciana
The article introduces the census of all the manuscripts bearing Petrarch’s Latin works stored in the Marciana Library. The census is a fundamental resource in order to reconstruct the diffusion of Petrarch’s works and to carry out an exhaustive recensio. Moreover, the analytical description of the codices has produced many discoveries not dealing with Petrarch, such as an unknown miscellaneous manuscript written by Marin Sanudo and a letter which seems to testify the diffusion of Dante’s epistolography in Messina at the beginning 15th century.

Fabio Forner, Petrarca a Verona: alcune considerazioni sui manoscritti petrarcheschi della Biblioteca Capitolare e della Biblioteca Civica
Some, not very many, manuscripts, that hand down the Latin and Italian works of Petrarch, are preserved in the Biblioteca Capitolare and in the Biblioteca Civica of Verona. The Italian manuscripts usually contain the entire work of Petrarch, they are for the most part in parchment, written by well-known copyists, and embellished with miniatures and gilded friezes; they are linked to the names of famous Veronese humanists, first Felice Feliciano. As for the Latin works, we are faced with a tradition mainly per excerpta. This tradition gives an account of the long-lasting success of the moral writings of Petrarch.

Lisa Ciccone, Petrarca parum prudens in un commento quattrocentesco all’Ars poetica di Orazio
This article concerns a gloss about Petrarch transmitted by two manuscripts: Milano, Bibl. Ambrosiana, I 38 sup. and Firenze, Bibl. Riccardiana 3594. The gloss, which is part of an anonymous commentary on Horace’s Ars poetica, produced in the second part of XV century, says that Petrarch was «parum prudens», because «postquam Bucolicam edidit, ad plures scripsit qui versus quosdam corrigerent». The text contained in each of two manuscripts is probably a copy of notes derived from the same commentary explaned by a Guarino’s pupil. Finally, it is pointed out that the commentaries have some interesting glosses in common with the Martino Filetico’s exegesis on the same Ars poetica.

Arnaldo Soldani, La forma sintattica dei sonetti di Sannazaro
Sannazaro’s sonnet moves between two definite and apparently opposite stylistic characterisations. On the one hand it shows a classical attention to the deep features of the metrical form and its balance, that is to say a frequent and very aware assumption of a conventional syntactic structure. On the other hand it shows an extraordinary ductility and articulation of the discursive line, in each case adapted to the needs of the argumentation.

Laura Facini, Il petrarchismo di Garcilaso. Alcune letture intertestuali (sonn. IV, XII, XV, XXII, XXVI)
The poet of Toledo, Garcilaso de la Vega, is closely related to the circle of Neapolitan poets of the early sixteenth century. The article includes a preliminary introduction about the Spanish author – his life, works and cultural context – and then focuses on a comparative analysis of five sonnets in relation to some texts of Tebaldeo, Sannazaro, Tansillo, Aquilano, Cariteo, Bernardo Tasso, of the first model Petrarch, of his Spanish friend Juan Boscán, and other poets. The study shows the figure of an author who proves to not give in to an easy imitation, banal and obvious, but instead suggests a personal style without ever leaving the Neapolitan cultural domain.

Massimo Natale, Tasso e le canzoni degli occhi: in margine a Rime 1449-1451
The aim of the article is to analyse three Torquato Tasso poems, which are a sort of rewriting of the well known Francesco Petrarca’s cantilenae oculorum. Duly reinserted into his historical and philological frame, the texts will be the object of a thematic and intertextual examination, whose key expedient is the replacement of the main element of Petrarca’s lyrics – the eyes – with the beloved woman’s hands. In addition to a comparison with the figurative tradition, in which the role of the hand assumes a central importance throughout the entire Renaissance, the intervention focuses on the ‘logic of challenge’ that constitutes the core of the sequence: in competition with the Petrarchan pattern, the author displays here an original, personal ‘poetics of praise’.

Giovanni Cascio,  Francesco Petrarca tra Jakob Heerbrand e Sigmund Ernhoffer: un episodio della ‘fortuna’ del Liber sine nomine nell’Europa della Riforma
The article aims to shed light on a little-known episode of the reception of Petrarch’s Liber sine nomine in the context of the theological controversies between Catholics and Protestants at the end of the 16th century. Petrarch’s anti-curial letters became a battleground between the Reformed theologian Jakob Heerbrand and the Jesuit Sigmund Ernhoffer. The contribution offers a glimpse of the forms and methods both of Petrarch’s recruitment as a forerunner of the Reformation by the Protestant intellectual, and of the defense of his doctrinal correctness advanced by a Catholic intellectual.

Uberto Motta, Il gentiluomo innamorato: Petrarca, Castiglione, Shakespeare
In Italian and European Renaissance, Petrarch is a model of poetic style as of behavior and manners, chiefly in love affairs; and his Canzoniere is received as a repertoire of sentiments and ideals from time to time adopted, recommended, censored. To illustrate the dynamics involved in this cultural system, a comparison is here proposed between three famous texts. That is the 16th sonnet of the Canzoniere, Movesi il vecchierel canuto et biancho, of chapters 66-69 of the IV book of The Book of the Courtier by Baldassarre Castiglione, and of the first act of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Luca Mazzoni, Il Petrarca sconosciuto: l’edizione bodoniana di Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta e Triumphi (1799)
The edition of Rerum vulgarium fragmenta and Triumphi published in 1799 by Bodoni and edited by Giovanni Iacopo Dionisi and Bartolomeo Perazzini has been quickly forgotten by scholars. In the fisrt part of my essay I reconstruct the history of this edition, with some information coming both from the recently-published letters of the two Veronese scholars and from some unpublished letters. In the second part, I analyse the Introduction of the edition, in which some textual and exegetical issues are posed.

Antonio Rollo, Un Tetravangelo appartenuto a Manuele Crisolora e una nota con la sua data di nascita
This paper focuses on a Tetraevangelium (Par. gr. 67) bearing the usual Greek-Latin title that refers to Manuel Chrysoloras’ library. The manuscript also contains a chronological note recurring in MS Vat. gr. 1299. The connection of this note with an epitaph composed for Chrysoloras’ death allows to establish the date of his birth.

Antonino Antonazzo, Gli excerpta pliniani di Landino
This article examines Cristoforo Landino’s autograph manuscript Ricc. 154: it reveals a wide collection of excerpts from Pliny’s Naturalis historia, as a result of a systematic perusal of the whole encyclopedia. The A. locates the stemmatic position of the plinian source, illustrates the humanist’s method of compilation and proposes a chronology.

Stefano Pagliaroli, Giano Lascari, Venezia, Mantova e uno sconosciuto θησαυρός di lettere autografe
The essay illustrates the discovery in the State Archive of Mantua of a wide, friendly, unknown exchange of letters between Ianus Lascari and the marquis Franciscus II Gonzaga. It allows us to fill a large lacuna for the years 1503-1509 in the biography of the Byzantine humanist, who busily worked to promote aid to his countrymen. The correspondence is in Italian vernacular and very rich in public and private news. Many of Lascari’s letters are autograph and all bear his calligraphic signature.

Paola de Capua, Tra Giano Vitale, Pietro Corsi e Niccolò Ridolfi
By the examination of a large number of literary texts still now unknown the paper reconstructs the relationship between the Italian humanist Pietro Corsi and the French court, including the role of the cardinal Gabriel de Gramont, and clarifies a literary polemic produced in Rome whose protagonists were Corsi, the cardinal Niccolò Ridolfi and the Palermitan humanist Giano Vitale. In the paper’s Appendix the author gives the edition (with Italian translation) of three poems still unpublished: the elegy dedicated from Pietro Corsi to Niccolò Ridolfi; the fake and ironic reply, from ps. Ridolfi to Corsi; the final Corsi’s apologia composed by Giano Vitale.

Giovanni Cascio, Due prolusioni di Demetrio Calcondila nella biblioteca di Hartmann Schedel
The article focuses on two inaugural orations in praise of the Greek language and literature by the Byzatine émigré Demetrius Chalcondyles delivered at the University of Padua in the years 1463-64. This contribution’s primary aim is to offer a renewed critical edition of these academic speeches on the basis of the two surviving manuscripts (Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 350 and 28128), both transcribed and owned by the Bavarian humanist Hartmann Schedel. The critical text is introduced by an ample historico-cultural framework and accompanied by the first Italian translation.