In addition to the Oratio, the manuscript contains: quotations from Plato, Plutarch, Pliny, St. Jerome, Aristotle; notes in Italian on painters in Padua (beginning with Giotto); a speech in Italian, dated Padua, January, 1556; Francesco Contarini, Dialogus; Lombardo della Seta, Epistula de dispositione sue vite ad celeberrimum vatem F. Petrarcham; a note on the office of the cardinal; Leonardo Bruni, Oratio funebris pro Nanni Strozza (Giovanni Strozzi), milite florentino; Poggio Bracciolini, Oratio in funere Francisci Zabarelle (Francesco Zabarella), cardinalis, florentini; Girolamo Maggi, Oratio pro D. Thadeo Quirino; Philippus [Arimineus], Symphosion de paupertate; Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron IV.1, translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni, with dedication letter to Bindaccio Ricasoli; Giovanni Boccaccio, Novella di Griselda, translated into Latin by Petrarch; Francisco Petrarca, Note on Laura; Pietro Paolo Vergerio, Funeral orations for Francisco (Sr.) da Carrara; Pietro Paolo Vergerio, Vita Francisci Petrarcae; Leonardo Bruni, Dialogi ad Petrum Histrum. Manuscript, on paper, in humanist script, produced in Italy around 1500
Description:
In Latin and Italian., Titles and marginalia (which note quotations from classical authors) are rubricated., Inscription on f. 3r: "Dultii Caesaris Patauini, Ordinis Minorum Conuentualium, No 486." The name Cesare Dultone also appears on f. 134v., Arms on f. 4r with initials NI. HO., Watermark: tête de boeuf, similar to Briquet 14851., and Binding: nineteenth-century brown calf.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy.
Subject (Name):
Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444., Arimineus, Philippus, ca. 1410-1497., Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375., Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459., Contarini, Francesco, 1421?-1460?, Maggi, Girolamo, d. 1572., Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374., Seta, Lombardo della., and Vergerio, Pietro Paolo, 1370-1444.
