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Vita di Cyro

Item

Italian translation id

IT0000009 See all items with this value

Translator

Iacopo Bracciolini See all items with this value

Title

Vita di Cyro See all items with this value

Date

c. 1470 See all items with this value

Language

Italian (Florentine) See all items with this value

Source text

Cyri vita See all items with this value

Dedicatee

Ferrante I King of Naples See all items with this value

Ercole I of Este Duke of Ferrara See all items with this value

Manuscript copies

Berlin, Kupferstichkabinet, 78 C 24 (ex Hamilton 686) See all items with this value

Firenze, Archivio di Stato, Cerchi 741 See all items with this value

Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ashburnham 461 See all items with this value

Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Magl. XXIII 60 See all items with this value

Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Magl. XXIII 61 See all items with this value

Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Magl. XXIII 87 See all items with this value

Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, II IV 91 See all items with this value

Lille, Bibliothèque Municipale, 324 See all items with this value

Ravenna, Biblioteca Classense, 351 See all items with this value

Roma, Biblioteca dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana, Rossi 12 See all items with this value

Roma, Biblioteca dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana, Rossi 16 See all items with this value

Note

In the manuscript tradition, the work is dedicated to Ferrante I King of Naples. However, in 1475 Iacopo sent a copy of his translation to Ercole I of Este as well (it is unclear whether in that occasion the work was dedicated to the Estense ruler, or whether a copy of the text was simply offered to him as a gift, accompanied by a letter). Apparently, the duke of Ferrara sent the manuscript back to Florence, as he already had Matteo Maria Boiardo's translation of the Cyropaedia, and Iacopo's gift would have been waisted.