Orazione in lode della poesia

Description

The academic oration is assigned by a later hand to Francesco Sommari who read it in the School of Simone della Rocca (cf. gloss in ms. Florence, BNC, Magl. VII.1207). Even though quite far from being an original text, the oration is widely based on Aristotelian sources (not only Poetics and Rhetoric, but On the soul as well). The two extant copies are bound within miscellaneous manuscripts which contain several works by Francesco Verino referring to Cavalcanti's Donna me prega, Verino's Latin Epilogus X librorum Aristotelis de moribus and works by other Florentine scholars (some of them are vernacular translations).

Eugenio Refini, ‘Orazione in lode della poesia’, in Vernacular Aristotelianism in Renaissance Italy Database (VARIDB)
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