Manuscript on paper of an anonymous Italian comedy in five acts in prose, based on various amorous plots, the scene being laid in Florence
Description:
In Italian., Script: One hand, writing Humanistica Cursiva. Corrections by a contemporary hand very close to the scribe's hand., Due to a binder's error the final leaves are in disorder. One or more leaves are missing between ff. 76 and 77., Horizontal catchwords at right on all pages., No decoration., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter binding, marbled paper over cardboard and parchment spine. On the spine red leather title label with gold-tooled inscription: “COMMEDI / MANOSCRITT / XVI SECOL”.
Manuscript on paper of Michele Bettini (16th century), Commedia ovvero storia del Crocefisso
Description:
In Italian., Script: copied by one hand in a careful Humanistica Libraria/Formata under Gothic influence., No decoration., Michele Bettini, an unrecorded author, was warden of the "Company of the Evangelist" in Rome, which used to stage edifying plays. The present play in verse (the Prologue only is in prose) was performed in1541 and in 1563. It deals with charity., Original foliation in Roman numerals. Corners and edges defective; the leaves waterstained., and Binding: contemporary paper cover, which is too small for the manuscript.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bettini, Michele.
Subject (Topic):
Christian drama, Italian, Italian drama (Comedy), Italian poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of a treatise in the form of a Prologue to a comedy by an unknown member of a newly founded Tuscan Academy
Description:
In Italian., Script: Copied by one hand in late Humanistica Cursiva; the first word of the centered title in Capitalis., and The original foliation shows that the present treatise is only a small part of a codex of unusually large size, the content of which is unknown.
Manuscript on paper of Gl'Oltraggi d'amore e di fortuna, a comedy in Italian by Alessandro Donzellini
Description:
In Italian., Script: copied, probably by one hand, in Humanistica Cursiva in various degrees of rapidity., Comedy in Italian about the love affairs of various young men and women, with a complicated plot, changes of names, disguises, etc. Donzelli's work was printed in 1585 in Florence by Bartolomeo Sermartelli, but the present version, dated thirteen years earlier and purportedly by an “Afflitto Accademico Stordito” (an Accademia degli Storditi existed in Bologna in the sixteenth century), differs in many respects from the printed text., and Binding: limp parchment binding.
