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Bernardo Segni's translation of Aristotle's Poetics and Rhetoric were first printed in Florence in 1549, though the author had been working on them for several years, as confirmed by the manuscript (autograph) version of the Rhetoric now in the…

Paper; ff. [1], [VI], [1], 107, [5]. mm. 205x290. Card binding.

Though recorded as a single work, the two manuscripts Florence, BNC, II.I.20-21 are note really related: the first one contains the so-called Proloqui nella Rettorica and an incomplete Ragionamento della poesia; the second manuscript is made up of 5…

Paper; misc., comp.; ff. [7], 235, [1], [2]; mm. 350_235.

Relevant unit: ff. 25r-28v, mm. 210_300.

The first manuscript, which is a miscellaneous and heterogeneous one, contains a single section of Salviati's commentary which deals with the previous exegetical works on the Poetics ('Degl'interpreti di questo libro della poetica', ff. 25r-26v: the…

Paper; ff. I, [9], 392, [1], I; mm. 210_300.

Unit n°18, mm. 210_290; ff. 6 [153r-158r]. The text copied is rich in additions and corrections, which witness at least a revision of the copy.

Unit n°23, mm. 273_205; ff. 6 [219r-225v].

The lecture addressed to Eleonora de Toledo, member of the Accademia degli Alterati under the name of "Ardente", is conceived as a general discussion of Alessandro Piccolomini's interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics, the Annotationi nel libro della…

Paper; misc., comp.; ff. I, [2], 253, I. Relevant unit: mm. 145_210.

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…

Paper; ff. 36; mm. 145_212.

This is an incomplete commentary on the Poetics which seems to be lacking in references to other authors. There are several marginal annotations. The old Magliabechi catalogue refers it to Leonardo Salviati, but there is no certain relation with the…

Paper; misc., comp.; ff. 4, 351; mm. 210_280.

Paper; misc., comp.; ff. 4, 351; mm. 210_280.

The anonymous academic oration is mainly based on Aristotle's Poetics (with precise references to the text) and Horace's Art of Poetry.

Paper; misc., comp.; mm. 330_240; ff. 175 (1r-51r, 81r-126v: autogr. Filippo Sassetti; 62r-77v: other hand; 132r onwards: other hand). Binding in parchment.

The commentary opens with an introduction in which the author — a member of the Accademia degli Alterati — gives some remarks on his notion of poetry in its relations to ethics and politics. Aristotle's Poetics is divided into several particelle;…

Beautiful copy of the text; corrections and additions which appear on the margins in the other manuscripts, are here part of the text.

Paper; misc., comp. (26 units); ff. [III], [2], 336, [2], [III]; measures varying. Unit 17: mm. 272_204.

The lecture — related to the Accademia degli Alterati as well as the other pieces in the miscellaneous ms. Ricc. 2435 — deals with a defence of Dante's Commedia as a poema eroico: the author aims at demonstrating that the poem perfectly fits in with…

Paper; misc., comp.; ff. [II], 684, [II].Measures variable. Relevant unit: mm. 275_200.

The censure on Alessandro Piccolomini's Annotationi nel libro della Poetica di Aristotele collect several remarks (mainly critical) on Piccolomini's interpretation of Aristotelian passages witnessing - together with other contemporary documents - the…