Manuscript of a collection of humanist texts, including 1) Ghigo Brunelleschi (c. 1353-c. 1410) and Domenico da Prato (c. 1389-1432/1433), Geta e Birria. 2) Nicolaus Perottus (Niccolò Perotti, 1429-1480), Latin translation of the Oath of Hippocrates, with his introductory letter to Bartolomeo Troiano of Verona. 3) Nicolaus Perottus, Letter to Iacobus Constantius (Jacopo Costanzi of Fano), written in his 25th year (1454), describing his life and how he has given himself entirely to the studia litterarum. 4) Three letters by Nicolaus Perottus to his brother Aelius (Elio Perotti). 5) Nicolaus Perottus, Letter to Iacobus Schioppus (Giacomo Schioppo), written from Bologna. 6) 8 verses recording historical examples of the power of Love. 7) Franciscus Petrarca (Petrarch, 1304-1374), Canzoniere, 136, 137 and 138. 8) Aulus Persius Flaccus (34-62), Satirae. 9) Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid, 43 B.C.-A.D. 17), Heroides, 15 (Sappho Paoni). 10) Ps.-Lucianus Samosatensis, De asino aureo, Latin translation by Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459), with introductory letter of the latter to Cosimo de' Medici. 11) Franciscus Petrarca (Petrarch), Canzoniere, 105. 12) Aristoteles, Ethica Nicomachea, Book 8, in the Latin translation by Leonardus Aretinus (Leonardo Bruni, c. 1370-1444).
Description:
In Latin and Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459., Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444., Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D., Perotti, Niccolò, 1430-1480., Persius., and Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
