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Florence, Bernardo Giunti, 1549. In 8°. Half parchment binding with corners. Smooth spine with tag. Printer's device on the title page and on f. R8v. Woodcut initials and decorations. From f. H4r with its own title page: Tears of Sir Agnolo Firenzuola in the violent death of a young Neapolitan nobleman . Colophon on f. R8r.
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First posthumous edition, edited by Lorenzo Scala, a friend of the author, and dedicated by him to Francesco Miniati.
The poems are dedicated to Selvaggia (of the Buonamici family, the woman loved by the poet), to Annibal Caro, to Camillo Tonti, to Dada Buonvisa, to the women of Prato, to Filippo Ciconini (on the death of Bartolomeo Gerardacci), Vincenzo Visconti, Giovanfrancesco Buonamici, Domenico Perini, Verdespina, Santi Quattro, Clemenza Buonamici, Lucrezia Tornabuoni, Martinozzo, Inghirano, Pandolfo Pucci, Giovanni Lanciolina, Giovanbattista del Milanese, Leo Villani (a bricklayer), Guido Antonio Adimari, Lasca, and Gualterotto de Bardi. The volume also contains imitations of Horace's poems, two elegies, a song in praise of sausage, a song in praise of sacred wood, a chapter in praise of thirst, and one in praise of the death of an owl. On page 60, with a new frontispiece, the section "Tears of Messer Agnolo Firenzuola in the violent death of a young Neapolitan nobleman" opens, dedicated to the noblewoman Clemenza Roca of Prato. On page 89, "The pastoral sacrifice" begins (cf. D. Maestri, The rhymes of Agnolo Firenzuola: proposal for an ordering of the text and critical evaluation, in: “Italianistica”, III, 1974, pp. 78-96).
The poems are dedicated to Selvaggia (of the Buonamici family, the woman loved by the poet), to Annibal Caro, to Camillo Tonti, to Dada Buonvisa, to the women of Prato, to Filippo Ciconini (on the death of Bartolomeo Gerardacci), Vincenzo Visconti, Giovanfrancesco Buonamici, Domenico Perini, Verdespina, Santi Quattro, Clemenza Buonamici, Lucrezia Tornabuoni, Martinozzo, Inghirano, Pandolfo Pucci, Giovanni Lanciolina, Giovanbattista del Milanese, Leo Villani (a bricklayer), Guido Antonio Adimari, Lasca, and Gualterotto de Bardi. The volume also contains imitations of Horace's poems, two elegies, a song in praise of sausage, a song in praise of sacred wood, a chapter in praise of thirst, and one in praise of the death of an owl. On page 60, with a new frontispiece, the section "Tears of Messer Agnolo Firenzuola in the violent death of a young Neapolitan nobleman" opens, dedicated to the noblewoman Clemenza Roca of Prato. On page 89, "The pastoral sacrifice" begins (cf. D. Maestri, The rhymes of Agnolo Firenzuola: proposal for an ordering of the text and critical evaluation, in: “Italianistica”, III, 1974, pp. 78-96).
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