[Franceschi’s academic lecture on RVF 203]

241x173 mm; 30 fols.

paper; sixteenth-century cursive hands; Petrarch’s poems set on left in small blocks, with prose text of the lecture distributed across the page beneath them.

‘Del S[igno]r Franc[eschi] Del s[igno]r Lorenzo Franceschi’ (fol. 190r)

fol. 190r: title page: ‘Del S[igno]r Franc[eschi] Del s[igno]r Lorenzo Franceschi’;
 
fols. 190v-191v: blank;
 
fols. 192r-218v: Lorenzo Franceschi’s lecture on RVF 203 (<inc> Quel fauoloso Proteo, Ill[ustrissi]mo Sig[no]re, Digniss[im]o Consolo nobilissimi Accad[emi]ci, che per fuggire la forza di coloro, che a predire le future cose, delle quali era ottimo indouino costringer lo uoleano, indiuersi mostri fu da Poeta finto trasformarsi, non senza ragione fù stimato essere stato posto per la menzogna; <exp> e conoscendo ilfauore ch[e] da V[ostra] E[ccellenza] I[o] ho riceuuto in qu[el] giorno, ogni uolta ch[e] mene souuerrà, il ch[e] fia ad ogn’hora, mi reputerò felicissimo d’esser’ à si cortese Signore obligato);
 
fol. 219r-219v: blank;
 
Other contents:
 
fols. 1r-5v: brief description of the imprese of the members of the Accademia degli Alterati;
 
fols. 6r-7r: list of the members of the Accademia degli Alterati;
 
fol. 7v: blank;
 
fols. 8r-11v: second and longer list of the members of the Accademia degli Alterati;
 
fols. 12r-28r: eleven letters by Giovanni de’ Medici to Giovan Battista Strozzi (blank fols. 13v, 14v, 15v-19v, 21v, 23v-24r, 27v);
 
fol. 28v: blank;
 
fol. 29r-29v: Niccolò Sacchetti’s letter to Giovan Battista Strozzi;
 
fols. 30r-34v: blank;
 
fols. 35r-44r: Giovan Battista Strozzi’s drafts of letters to Giovanni de’ Medici (blank fol. 35v);
 
fol. 44v: blank;
 
fol. 45r: brief list and description of the members of the Accademia degli Alterati;
 
fols. 45v-47v: blank;
 
fol. 48r-48v: anonymous academic writing on the concept of order (‘ordine’);
 
fols. 49r-54v: summary of academic writings addressed to the Accademia degli Alterati;
 
fol. 54v: blank;
 
fols. 55r-62v: anonymous draft of a life of Giovanni de’ Medici;
 
fols. 63r-81v: scattered notes on the literary output, the modes of operation, and the activity of the Accademia degli Alterati (blanks fols. 69v, 80r-80v);
 
fols. 82r-85v: academic prose on the impresa of the Accademia degli Speziali;
 
fols. 86r-87r: blank;
 
fol. 87v: scattered words ‘Impresa de li Spetiali’;
 
fol. 88r: blank;
 
fol. 88v: scattered words ‘Molto Mag[nific]o sig[no]r mio oss[eruandissi]mo’;
 
fols. 89v-91r: second copy of the academic prose on the impresa of the Accademia degli Speziali;
 
fols. 91v-92v: blank;
 
fols. 93r-96v: Filippo Sassetti’s Latin dialogue on the topic of priority and nobility (‘precedenza’);
 
fols. 97r-102vr: Filippo Sassetti’s Latin dialogue between Jupiter and Ganymede;
 
fols. 102v-106r: blank;
 
fol. 106v: fol. with the name of the recipient of the previous dialogue ‘Molto Mag[nifi]co s[ignor] Geri Spini oss[eruandissi]mo Pisa’ sealed with wax;
 
fol. 107r-107v: blank;
 
fols. 108r-136r: Torquato Malaspina’s treatise on how to write lives for the Accademia degli Alterati (‘Dello scrivere le Vite’);
 
fols. 136v-139v: blank;
 
fols. 140r-152v: anonymous series of objections to a collection of poems;
 
fols. 153r-158r: anonymous letter to Eleonora di Toledo on the practice of letter writing as expounded by Alessandro Piccolomini;
 
fol. 158v: blank;
 
fols. 159r-160r: anonymous letter to a friend;
 
fol. 160v: blank;
 
fols. 161r-165r: anonymous academic writing with philosophical notes and brief annotations on Dante’s works;
 
fols. 165v-167v: blank;
 
fols. 168r-186r: anonymous academic lecture on the doctrine of poetic fury;
 
fol. 187r-187v: blank;
 
fols. 188r-189v: discourse on ire;
 
fols. 220r-254v: anonymous prose writing on contemplative life;
 
fol. 255r-255v: blank;
 
fols. 256r-268v: dialogue between Giovan Battista Strozzi and Giovan Battista Vecchietti on writing epic poetry in Italian vernacular (‘Uerseggiare epicamente in italiano’);
 
fol. 269r-269v: blank;
 
fols. 270r-277v: Giulio del Bene’s accusation against another academic member (named ‘Rinnouellato’) for having railed at the academy;
 
fol. 278r-278v: prose writing on the benefit of participating in the public affairs;
 
fol. 279r-280v: list of chapters of a literary treatise addressed to Giovan Battista Strozzi;
 
fol. 281r: blank;
 
fol. 281v: fol. with the name of the recipient of the previous writing (‘All’Ill[ustrissim]o S[igno]r Giouanbatista Strozzi Sig[nor] mio oss[eruand]iss[imo] Roma’);
 
fols. 282r-283v: scattered poetic lines;
 
fols. 284r-286v: anonymous note sent to Giovan Battista Strozzi regarding his academic impresa (blank fol. 286r).