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4°; [*]4, A-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Sss4; p. [8], 507, [5]; mm. 150×205; preface in italics, text in roman.

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

Paper; ff. I, [9], 392, [1], I; 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; misc., comp.

The translation covers Aristotle's Poetics, chapters 1-7; the commentary 1-2.

Paper; misc., comp.; ff. I, 160; mm. 315_225 (variable). Relevant unit (ff. 117-160): mm. 215_280. The ms is a sketchy one, full of additions, corrections, erasures. Not easily legibile.

Ms. Florence, BNC, Magl. VIII.1548 contains autograph works by Curzio Picchena, a Florentine diplomatist very close to Cosimo II de Medici (he also became segretario di stato). The excerpts from Aristotle's Politics are very difficult to read because…