BOK.ITA.AD1567

Ragionamenti Accademici di Cosimo Bartoli Gentil'huomo et Accademico Fiorentino, Sopra Alcuni Luoghi Difficili di Dante. Con Alcune Inventioni & Significati, & la Tauola di Piu cose notabili.

This book contains writings from Cosimo Bartoli, an Italian " diplomat, mathematician, philologist, and humanist." The writings are mainly a critique of Dante's works, but it also includes various opinions of the author on the music, art, and architecture of his native Italy (Miller).

The binding is made from animal hide and was printed by Francesco de Franceschi of Venice. Francesco owned "a press and bookshop named Al segno della Pace (At the Sign of the Peace) located by the Piazza San Marco (Duroselle-Melish). His seal can be seen on the title page of the manuscript, depicting a seated woman with the word "PACE" behind here as a reference to his shop.
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Duroselle-Melish, Caroline. “The Cover Design.” The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy 78, no. 1 (January 2008): 107–9. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/52391.

Miller, Clement A., author. 2001. “Bartoli, Cosimo.” Oxford Music Online. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.02163.

1567 AD

Cosimo Bartoli

Francesco de Franceschi

Venice

Italy

16th Century

Print

English History of Writing Collection See all items with this value

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Italian

"Coll: & perf: F.C.B. 3 June. 1857." written on the back of the front cover

Donated by L. Tom Perry Special Collections at Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

Humanism See all items with this value

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divine comedy See all items with this value

Renaissance See all items with this value

Literary criticism

Aesthetics

Bartoli, Cosimo, 1503-1572. Ragionamenti Accademici Cosimo Bartoli Gentil'huomo et Accademico Fiorentino, Sopra Alcuni Luoghi Difficili di Dante. Con Alcune Inventioni & Significati, & la Tauola di Piu cose notabili. Venice: Francesco de Franceschi, 1567.