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Record Id:
032-002029709
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Add MS 8814
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BENEDETTO MENZINI: Satires; circa 1682-1685. Italian. Copy. Collection of twelve satires by the Florentine priest and poet Benedetto Menzini (1646-1704), member of the Accademia Reale founded in Rome by Queen Christina of Sweden in 1674 and later of the Accademia dell'Arcadia with the name Euganio Libade. Menzini's satires are a vitriolic analysis of the vices of his town, Florence, and of his contemporaries. A later copy (1720) Add. 8815, art. 7 (ff. 90-143v), orders the texts as the posthumous first edition Satire di Benedetto Menzini cittadino fiorentino (Amsterdam [but Naples], 1718), B.L. copies 84.c.14.(1) and 11431.c.34, with some textual variants and notes following each text. The present MS. is listed in Palma di Cesnola, no. 490, p. 38. For Menzini see G. Negri, Istoria degli scrittori fiorentini... (Ferrara: Bernardino Pomatelli Stampatore Vescovile, 1722), pp. 93-95, B.L. copy 10629.i.6 with bookplate and shelfmark 'L/6/D' of the Hon. Frederick North, later 5th Earl of Guilford; U. Limentani, 'Sulle satire di Benedetto Menzini', in Studi secenteschi, vol. i (1960), pp. 15-37; Letteratura Italiana. Gli autori, vol. ii: H-Z (Turin, 1991), pp. 1184-1185, with some bibliography. Decorated frontispiece (f. 1) with title 'Satire di Benedetto Menzini fiorentino'. Each satire preceded by a brief summary. Contemporary table of contents (f. 2). Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. Purchased, together with Add. 8811, 8813, and 8816, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 111 (part).

Initial lines as follows:

1. ff. 3-10. 'Satira Prima', summary, 'Argomento / Rinuova le antique querele', inc. 'Mi domanda talun s'io studio in Marco', expl. 'e farò i Grandi anche venire a banco'.

2. ff. 10-15v. 'Satira Seconda', summary, 'Argomento / Vano essere il fasto de' Nobili', inc. 'Sgobbia, se nel parlarti io tengo in zucca', expl. 'e non ci metto su nè sal, nè aceto'.

3. ff. 16-22. 'Satira Terza', summary, 'Argomento / Curculione letterato alla moderna', inc. 'Anch'io volea cantar d'assalti, e d'armi', expl. 'e quel ch'è peggio, io so scoprir gli Altari'.

4. ff. 22v-27v. 'Satira Quarta', summary, 'Argomento / Inveisce contro la malizia delle Donne', inc. 'Rideva Momo allor che le Zittelle', expl. 'Fatevi ancora abburattar da un Oste'.

5. ff. 28-32. 'Satira Quinta', summary, 'Argomento / Deride coloro che vantando', inc. 'Se talor miro aperti gli armadioni', expl. 'Cuopre co i veli della Sagrestia'.

6. ff. 32v-37. 'Satira Sesta', summary, 'Argomento / Prende a dannare l'avarizia', inc. 'Quanto meglio saria tele di ragno', expl. 'Già sotto al capezal due soldi appiatto'.

7. ff. 37v-42. 'Satira Settima', summary, 'Argomento / Inveisce contro degli Ateisti', inc. 'La Ruota, il Sasso, e'l vorator Grifagno', expl. 'e non gli lascerà ramo, nè tralce'.

8. ff. 42v-48v. 'Satira Ottava', summary, 'Argomento / Parve che dopo del Tasso', inc. 'Ricco di fama, e di danar mendico', expl. 'e quello ancor che vota la sentina'.

9. ff. 49-52v. 'Satira Nona', summary, 'Argomento / Le persone introdotte in questa Satira', inc. 'Anima gloriosa di Tegliaccio', expl. 'Diasi a colui che al cul mi da il merdocco'.

10. ff. 53-57. 'Satira Decima', summary, 'Argomento / Introducendosi a discorrere', inc. 'Poeta e Interlocutore / Poeta: Che fa il Signor, che omai non si dispiccia', expl. 'Fra la genia circoncisa e brutta'.

11. ff. 57v-63v. 'Satira Undecima', summary, 'Argomento / In questa Satira contiensi', inc. 'Ognun gonfia la piva in stil Pindarico', expl. 'Cancher venga alle Corti, e ai Rosolacci'.

12. ff. 64-68. 'Satira Duodecima', summary, 'Argomento / Mostra che pochi sono gli uomini', inc. 'Quanto ne' voti suoi delira il Mondo!', expl. 'e mi contento d'esser il lor Boia / Il fine'.

Paper; ff. 68+iii. 260 x 186mm. Horizontal catchwords on each leaf. One Italian hand. Late 17th- or early 18th-cent. Italian binding of full vellum.

Scope & Content:

Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. - early 18th cent.

Poetry ITALIAN: Satires ITALIAN: Benedetto Menzini, of Florence: Satires by Benedetto Menzini: circa 1682-1685: Ital: Copies.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
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Additional Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 item
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Italian
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1677
End Date:
1685
Date Range:
c 1682-1685
Era:
CE
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Custodial History:

Robert Harding Evans, bookseller: Purchased from (lot 111, part), 8 Dec. 1830.

Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford: Owned, bef. 1828.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Evans, Robert Harding, bookseller and auctioneer, 1777-1857
Menzini, Benedetto, of Florence
North, Frederick, 5th Earl of Guilford, politician and colonial administrator, 1766-1827,
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