Amor fugitivus

Description

Title: Amor fugitivus
Creator: Suardi, Giovanni Francesco
Published / Created: 16th century
Publication Place: Northern Italy (Mantua)
Abstract: Poem in three cantos dedicated to Isabella d'Este (1474-1539), Marchioness of Mantua, and intended to be performed at her court
Description: In Italian.
Script: copied by a single hand writing Humanistica Cursiva Libraria; thought to be autograph. Headings on ff. 1v and 3r in Capitalis.
Giovan Francesco Suardi (d. after 1540), Amor fugitivus. Poem in Italian in three cantos dedicated to Isabella d'Este (1474-1539), Marchioness of Mantua, and intended to be performed at her court. In the first canto the poet sings of his love, in the second he encounters Venus in search of Cupido who ran away, in the third he sadly returns home. There are a few corrections on erasure. This is the dedication copy and the only manuscript containing this text.
Binding: original binding: brown leather over cardboard; both covers blind-tooled with a double frame inscribed with a lozenge containing the monogram “YHS”. The spine is gold-tooled.
Provenance: Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. I (parchment) + II (paper) + 16 + II (paper) : 210 x 135 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian

Genre: Manuscripts, Renaissance Italy 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Suardi, Giovanni Francesco.
Subject (Topic): Italian literature
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Suardi, Giovanni Francesco
Italian literature > 16th century
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Giovanni Francesco Suardi, Amor Fugitivus. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.