Vernacular Culture and Greek Texts in Renaissance Florence: a Database of Florentine Vernacularizations of Greek texts (c. 1460-1500)

Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut.89 inf.34

Item

Manuscript copy id

MC0000019 See all items with this value

Translator

Poggio Bracciolini (Poggius Florentinus) See all items with this value

Work

Diodori Siculi Historiarum priscarum <libri> a Poggio in Latinum traducti See all items with this value

Shelfmark

Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut.89 inf.34 See all items with this value

Date

Forlì, January-March 1463 (cf. fol. 161r: "Diodori Sciculi [sic.] priscar(um) historiar(um) scriptoris excelentissimi Cosmographiq(ue) peritissimi libri sex expliciunt, quos ego Malatesta Comes (quon)dam Comitis Lodouici de Cunio in ciuitate Forliuii ocii euitandi causa scripsi. Incepique eos scribere an(n)o gratie M° cccc° Lxiii° die v(er)o decima mensis Ianuarii. Expleviq(ue) die ultima Martii eiusdem anni". See all items with this value

Seen

Yes

Material

Paper See all items with this value

Type of script

Humanist cursive See all items with this value

Scribe

Malatesta da Cunio, son of Ludovico I earl of Cunio (see subscription above) See all items with this value

Decoration

Yes; coat of arms of the Cunio-Barbiano family at fol. 10r, sided by the letters "C" and "M" ("Cunius Malatesta"?). On the earls of Cunio and Barbiano see Tabanelli 1972 in Bibliography.

Bibliography

- C. Sideri, Per la fortuna di Diodoro Siculo fra XV e XVI secolo: la traduzione latina di Poggio Bracciolini e i primi volgarizzamenti. Con un saggio di edizione critica dei testi volgari, tutor Prof. R. Drusi, Ca' Foscari University, Venice, defended on 20 March 2020, 76-78.
- M. Tabanelli Romagna medievale. I conti di Cunio e di Barbiano, Faenza, Fratelli Lega, 1972.

Digitized copy

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