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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.

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

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

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

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…

Folio; ff. 120; ab6, c–h8 ik6 l–q8.

Cf. modern edition with critical introduction (Manenti 1988).

Parchment; ff. 65 [n.n.], 2 [blank]; mm. 225_134; 25 lines; small illuminated initials; dated at f. 65v: 'Ex Venet. primo Idus Iulij MCCCCLXXIII'. Old original binding in wood and vellum. The text of the Economics follows a compendium of the Ethics…

The anonymous translation of the Economics is witnessed by a manuscript (Venice, BNM, It. II.134) in which the text appears as part of a compilation including a compendium of the Ethics (largely coinciding with Taddeo Alderotti's) and vernacular…