Bracciolini, Poggio

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This is a late fifteenth-century Italian manuscript of Poggio Bracciolini's De miseria conditionis humanae (usually called De miseria humanae conditionis). The work is a type of socratic reflection, inspired by the sack of Constantinople, which Bracciolini wrote in his retirement in Florence.

Abstract This humanistic manuscript was copied on parchment in Italy in the mid-fifteenth century. The first four works are three letters of Poggio Bracciolini, including one on nobility and one against avarice, and a poem by Carlo Marsuppino (Aretino) on nobility; these share a page layout, illuminated initials, and marginal notes of proper names in red. Three brief letters by Petrarch and an Easter table have been added at the end (fols. 103v-114r) and have spaces left for illuminated initials....

Abstract Phyllis Walter Goodhart (1913-1994) was a graduate of Bryn Mawr College (BA 1935) and a Latin and Greek scholar. While at Bryn Mawr, she developed a life-long interest in the works of the Italian humanists, especially Poggio Bracciolini. Mrs. Gordan's extensive scholarly papers reflect her many years of careful study of Italian humanism. Over the years she had acquired a notable collection of published and unpublished research materials from which she generated her meticulous notes on...

Abstract This manuscript is a humanistic miscellany written in northern Italy in the fifteenth century. The volume contains three texts: Poggio Bracciolini, In laudem rei publicae Venetorum (fols. 1r-23v); Einhard, Vita Excellentissimi Imperatoris Magni Caroli (fols. 25r-66r); Alcuin, Confessio [for Charlemagne] (fols. 66v-70v). The beginning of each text is marked by white-vine illumination; the coat of arms on the first page suggests original ownership by a member of the Bembo family of Venice. The...

Abstract This fifteenth-century Italian manuscript contains six texts: Giannozzo Manetti, Oration to Nicholas V (fols. 1r-10v); Poggio Bracciolini, oratio ad summum pontificem Nicolaum V (fols. 11r-19r); Franciscus de Padua de Florentia, Letter to Nicholas V (fols. 19r-24r); Leonardo Bruni, Oratiuncula ad Martinum V (fols. 24r-26r); Leonardo Bruni, State Letter for the Commune of Florence to the Emperor (fols. 26v-27v); Leonardo Bruni, State letter for the Commune of Florence to the Council of Basel...