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8°. A-Z8, Aa-Gg8, Hh4. p. 486, f. [1]. Dedications in Italics, text in Roman, poetical quotations in Italics.

The lecture is very based on Aristotelian sources (Aristotle's works are often quoted). The author was a member of the Accademia degli Alterati. The lecture was given in 1564, under the leadership of Baccio Valori (cf. the later 1717 printed…

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.

Paper; misc.; ff. III, 389; mm. 282_212. Autograph. Relevant unit (n°14): ff. 7.

The first part of Pompeo Vizzani's Ragionamento che non è felicità  in questo mondo is all based (although not explicitly) on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book I; Vizzani then veers off from it toward the discussion of heavenly happiness about two…

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

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

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.; ff. 4, 351; mm. 210_280.

The oration by Niccolò Aggiunti (who was one of Galileo's disciples and the successor of Benedetto Castelli as professor of mathematics in Pisa since 1626), held in front of the Tuscan princes, deals with a strong defence of Galileo Galilei mainly…

Paper; mm. 141x200; ff. 10, 2 (old page numbers: 178-187). Cursive handwriting. The ms. was part of ms. Pal. 1095; on f. 10v, autograph note by Francesco Redi. Modern binding.

Francesco de Vieri's Lezzioni d'amore are two lectures held at the Accademia Fiorentina in 1556. The work is conceived as a thorough commentary on Guido Cavalcanti's Donna me prega. Though their main subject is love, the two lectures are largely…

Paper; misc., comp.; ff. I, [2], 253, I.

Paper; misc., comp.; ff. II, 148. Relevant unit: mm. 210_280.

This is an anonymous academic lecture on the definition of three kinds of being in aristotelian terms bound with very heterogeneous materials.

The lecture, given at the Accademia degli Umoristi in Rome in 1605, deals with a section of Aristotle's Poetics on the opportunity of employing verse (and not prose) in epic poetry.
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