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[Mellini’s academic lecture on RVF 218]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Magl. VIII. 47
Date
late-sixteenth / early-seventeenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF 218

Academy

Accademia Fiorentina, Florence
Italy

Description

Physical Description: Format

281x203 mm; II + 412 + I fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scripts (multiple hands); text in prose.

Title Page

(fol. 362r) Lettione fatta et Recitata p[er] Domenico Mellini il giorno otto di Marzo M D L iij essendo Consolo M. Guido Guidi, et suo Viciconsolo [sic] M. Cosimo Bartoli Priore di S. Giovanni; et recitata dall’Accademia fior[entina]

Internal Description

fol. 362r: title (‘Lettione fatta et Recitata p[er] Domenico Mellini il giorno otto di Marzo M D L iij essendo Consolo M. Guido Guidi, et suo Viciconsolo [sic] M. Cosimo Bartoli Priore di S. Giovanni; et recitata dall’Accademia fior[entina]’);
 
fols. 362r-364r: Mellini’s academic lecture on RVF 218 (<inc> Se tutti gl’huomini desiderano sapere come ne mostra l’esser stati quasi infiniti di loro che no[n] p[er]donando a cosa alcuna se \ son \ messi a ir cercando uarie parti del mondo, per imparare, hora ca[m]minando p[er] terra per i più deserti e alpestri boschi, che si trouino; et hora nauigando p[er] i più profondi e perigliosi mari quattro dita lontani dalla Morte, come dice Anacharse [sic] Philosopho guidati solo dal desid[eri]o di sapere; <exp> Non sarebbe p[er] auuentura fuor di proposito uedere se il sole produce nell’altre stelle co’ la sua luce alcuno effetto; come sarebbe il dar loro il lume, o se pur esse p[er] lor med[esim]e se l’hanno della qual cosa anchor che a me difficile, pur ne dirò q[u]ello che p[er] quanto io ne ho letto enparato [sic] da altri ne so);
 
fols. 364v-365v: blank;
 
 

 

Other contents:
 
fols. 1r-362r: several works, in both vernacular and Latin by many hands, mainly letters and prose texts on philosophy, theology, and devotion (including a treatise on Infernal torments [‘Delle pene infernali’], prose works in praise of the Virgin Mary and the virtue of chastity, religious sermons, moral guidance to the young, diplomatic reports from Paris and Prague, discussions of philosophical problems, a ‘Diceria nell’Accademia del Piano’ with a list of those affiliated to that academy, and a scientific prose work on the calendrical reformation), and many Latin and vernacular poems (including the poetical dialogue ‘Elisa e Palemone’; encomiastic and love poems in vernacular by anonymous authors; a poetic elegy in vernacular by Petronio Barbati; Bembo’s ‘Stanze’; a poem in terza rima by Alfonso de’ Pazzi in praise of Etruscans; ‘Il raveggiuolo’ by Bronzino; a poem in terza rima addressed to Ridolfo Lotti by an anonymous author; encomiastic poems by Girolamo Leopardi and Antonio Gaetani; a poetical translation of Theocritus; encomiastic and love Latin poems by Fabius Segnius, Titus Gallius Victor, Benedetto Varchi, Jacobus Taurellis, and Lucas Antella; religious Latin poems attributed to the Eritrean Sibyl; Latin poetical translation of RVF 218). For a detailed list of titles and authors, see Iter, I, 117a.
 
fols. 366r-412v: several works, mostly in vernacular by many hands, mainly prose works (including: a list of proverbs in vernacular on military matters, sermons, a prose work and a poem on friendship, vernacular translations from Xenophon, a list of prophecies in Latin, some epistles in Latin, and a list of members of the Este family). For a detailed list of titles and authors, see Iter, I, 117a.

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Magl. VIII. 47
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Mellini’s lecture mainly gives lexical paraphrase of the sonnet and offers short basic textual explanations.

Bibliography

Iter, I, 117a