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[Miscellanea of poems by Gabriello Simeoni with a map of Vaucluse]

Overview

Current Location

Fondation Barbier-Mueller
Geneva
Switzerland

Shelfmark
SIME. 2
Date
sixteenth century (c. 1539)
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF

Description

Physical Description: Format

214x146 mm; I, 124, I fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper (of different types); regular sixteenth-century script (fols. 1-20) and very cursive sixteenth-century script (at least two hands for fols. 22-124); poems with one verse per line and prose text; two full-page watercolours (one with a map).

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> A lo Illustrisssimo gran Duca di Fiorenza Il Signor Cosimo de Medici Gabriello Symeoni Theopisto .S.

Internal Description

fols. 1r-2r: Simeoni’s dedicatory letter of his canzoniere to Cosimo I de’ Medici (dated: ‘in Valchiusa, il giorno xxiii d’Agosto M.D.XXXIX’);
 
fol. 2v: full-page coloured watercolour with a map of Vaucluse;
 
fol. 3r: blank with few words at the top of the page (‘A Vesperas Antisona’ and ‘sombi [sic] trouo tanto obbligato’);
 
fols. 3v-4v: blank (fols. 3-4 are made of a paper different from that of fols. 1-2 and 5-followings);
 
fol. 5r: sonnet (‘Al Medesimo’, <inc> S’ad ogn’alto gentil uostro desio);
 
fol. 5v: sonnet ‘Qui, doue già con amoroso stile’;
 
fol. 6r: Latin epigram (‘Ad Eundem Hexasticon’, <inc> Hic, ubi Francisci uersus fecere beatam);
 
fol. 6v: blank;
 
fols. 7r-15r: poem made of thirty octaves celebrating Cosimo I de’ Medici (<inc> Non d’Orlando impazato o di Ruggiero \ Le proue fabulose d’Orlando | & di Ruggiero \ | che senza spade fer mirabil proue, | ne gl’alti fatti, che si lunge al uero \ i fatti non credibili d’Hercole, | figliuol di Gioue et d’Alcmena | onde è chiamata la Grecia | bugiarda \ | scripsero i Greci del figliuol di Gioue. |Ma in giouenil’etate un senno intero, \ L’opere uere del Duca | Cosimo de Medici & | del signor Giouanni | suo padre \ | un ualor non più uisto o inteso altroue | d’un uero antico Caualier toscano | canto io con stil non fabuloso o uano; <exp> Et però pensa homai che (qual già feo \ San Cosimo \ | d’ogni piaga incurabil Cosmo santo) | così costui, che nato è semideo \ per esser figliouolo di Marte \ | Fiorenza è per por fine al tuo gran pianto! | Per sanare (onde spesso in stato reo | cadesti) il desiar tuo infermo tanto, \ per le discordie civili \ | il qual s’auien ch’homai più non si mute | a lui honore & a te sia salute), on the right margin of each fol. there are annotations giving explanations and summaries of the content of the relative lines;
 
fol. 15v: full-page coloured watercolour with a deity with two heads and two chests but only one pair of legs (one of the two gods is Mercury, the other carries a sickle; at the bottom of the drawing is the indication of the year: M-D.XXXIX; above the drawing are the words ‘KAL. IANVARII’ and – within a rectangular-box – the sentence: ‘labitur et surgit | corrodens | omnia tempus’);
 
fols. 16r-16v: Latin poem in hexameters (‘Ianus ad Maximu[m]’, <inc> Queris cur duplici fingar sic, Maxime, uultu; <exp> Bella gerens segetisq[ue] paru[m] sed plurima uina);
 
fols. 16v-20v: poem in blank verse (‘Al Sole’, <inc> Tu, dal cui nome ancor Tessaglia et Tempe; <exp> un altro Gian ti mostrerremo Apollo);
 
fols. 20v-21v: blank;
 
fols. 22r-124v: many poems (most by Simeoni; some by other poets, including: Giovan Battista Dati [fol. 36r] and Lasca [fols. 36v-37r]).

Material Copy

Location

Fondation Barbier-Mueller
Geneva
Switzerland

Shelfmark
SIME. 2
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

In the ms. is a watercolour map of Vaucluse.