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Add MS 8819
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- 032-002029714
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- 032-002029714
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000045.0x000126
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- Add MS 8819
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GIULIANO ROSSI: Poems in Genoese dialect; mid 17th cent. Italian. Copy. A collection of poems by the Genoese poet Giuliano or Giurian Rossi (circa 1605-1657), who often used the pseudonym of Toddaro Conchetta and died during the plague of 1657. In addition to Rossi's poems the present MS. contain single poems addressed to Rossi by Giovanni Giacomo Cavalli (circa 1590-1659; art. 2), Girolamo Borlasca (art. 3), Giovanni Giacomo Porrata (art. 5) and an anonymous writer (art. 4). Rossi's vast literary output seems to survive mainly in MS. form and the collection includes (ff. 5-22) one of the only two poems by Rossi ever published, printed at the end of the third edition of poems by Cavalli, the Cittara Zeneize de Giovanni Giacomo Cavallo (Genoa: Gerolamo Marino, 1665), pp. 253-280, B.L. copy 11431.df.1. Originally the present MS. was the first volume of a larger and now dispersed set of MSS. Other two volumes from the same set are now Add. 17535 and 17536: they are copied by the hand of the present MS. and also have the same title, 'Poesie in Lengua Zeneize de Giurian Rossi' (f. 1 in each MS.), followed by a note 'Parte Segonda' (Add. 17535, f. 1) and 'Parte Terza' (Add. 17536, f. 1). The present MS. may have also included a similar note in the now lost lower part of f. 1. Add. 17535-17536 were bought by the Museum in 1848 as part of a three-volume set previously in the library of the Genoese historian Federico Alizeri (1817-1882). The set included also Add. 17534, a late 18th- or possibly early 19th-cent. MS. Add. 18534 contains a selection of Rossi's poems that is almost identical to the one in the present MS.; its binding of full mottled brown leather was made in the 19th cent. to match the bindings of its companion volumes. A similar, slightly reduced collection of Rossi's poems, excluding the poems by other authors, is in King's 326, an early 18th-cent. MS. copied by a different hand (pace G. F. Warner - J. P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the old Royal and King's Collections, vol. iii (Munich, 1997), p. 61); a more extensive collection is in King's 327, also a late 18th-cent. MS. The present MS. is listed in Palma di Cesnola, no. 494, p. 38. For Giuliano Rossi see R. Soprani, Li scrittori della Liguria e particolarmente della Maritima... (Genoa: Pietro Giovanni Calenzani, 1667), p. 178, with mention of Giovanni Giacomo Cavalli on pp. 164-165, B.L. copies 125.k.12 and 617.f.23.(1); A. Oldoini, Athenaeum Ligusticum: seu Syllabus Scriptorum Ligurum nec non Sarzanensium ac Cyrnensium reipublicae Genuensis subditorum (Perugia: Typographia Episcopali, apud H.H. Laurentij Ciani & Franciscum Desiderium, 1680), p. 388, mentioning Cavalli on p. 354, B.L. copies 124.i.16, 617i.19, 661.b.15 (facsimile edition Westmead, 1969); A. Cappellini, Dizionario biografico di genovesi illustri e notabili (Genoa, 1941). Contemporary table of contents (ff. 2-4). Armorial bookplate of the 5th Earl of Guilford, with shelfmark 'L/19/C' (f. i). Purchased, together with Add. 8815, 8818, 8820, 8821, 8822, and 8823, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 5 (part).
Initial lines as follows:
1. ff. 5-22, 23v-24v, 25-25v, 26-27, 27v-102v. Giuliano Rossi, Poems. (ff. 5-22) 'Bigettin, o sè Relation de Giurian Rosso a rò Lustrissimo Sciò Zan'Andria Spinnora in ra morte dolorosa dell'Aze de sò Signoria', inc. 'Lustrissimo Patron / Infin sotta rò concavo dra Lunna', published in Cittara Zeneize..., op.cit., pp. 253-274; (ff. 23v-24v) 'Risposta dell'Autò a rò Sonetto de Gian Giacomo Cavallo', inc. 'Scior Cavallo, che humò che Fantasia'; (ff. 25-25v) 'Risposta dell'Autò' [to Girolamo Borlasca], inc. 'Voi sì, che sei destende un Testamento'; (ff. 26-27) 'Risposta dell'Autò', inc. 'Che me fasse dell'Aze ch'hò laudou'; (ff. 27v-28) 'Risposta dell'Autore al Signor Cugino' [Giovanni Giacomo Porrata], inc. 'Rò Porco Scior Coxin sacrificou'; (ff. 28-30) 'Al Signor Luca Assarino mandandoli la Canzone dell'Asino', inc. 'Zà che per cortesia'; (ff. 30-33) 'In lode drò Sciò Framura', inc. 'In somma sciò Framura'; (ff. 33-34) 'Ara Signora Maria Brigida Spinola Nove', inc. 'Lustrissima Patronna, ò l'è doi meixi'; (ff. 34-35) 'Ringratiamento alla Signora Maddalena detta rà bella Marinna, moglie del Signor Cosmo Centuriore. Per una colanna d'oro posta al collo al figlio dell'Autore', inc. 'Lustrissima Patronna, arrivou à penna'; (ff. 35-36) 'Alla Signora Delia Spinnola aviso d'un Figlio nato al Signor Nicolò Raggi', inc. 'Lustrissima Patronna / Quello, ch'hieri gh'hò dito'; (ff. 36-36v) 'A rà Signora Maddalena Centuriona', inc. 'Donca perche son cheito'; (ff. 36v-37) 'A un sò Coxin, chi vorreiva esse pagou in tant'Oerio da unna dita rà Cagninna', inc. 'Carissimo Coxin, / Voi ve pensè condì l'Insalattinna'; (ff. 37-37v) 'Sonetto', inc. 'Che zughereiva un'Oeggio d'un de noi'; (ff. 37v-38v) 'Al Padre Ugo di Monte Oliveto', inc. 'Reverendo Padre Ugo / Se ben rà Musa me n'è gueri in Sugo'; (ff. 38v-39v) 'Risposta al Signor Geronimo Spinola che voleva venire a Sant'Alberto', inc. 'Lustrissimo Patron, Haur'haura mè moggiè'; (ff. 39v-40) 'In lode di sua moglie in occasione d'un sonno', inc. 'Se ben drè votte in quarche sò discorso'; (ff. 40-40v) 'Mortale Infermità d'Innocenzo X / Sonetto', inc. 'Hemmo noeva da Roma, che rò Pappa'; (ff. 40v-41) 'Risposta / Sonetto', inc. 'Ra Pelle à ch'invegisce infin s'arappa'; (ff. 41v-43v) 'Alla Signora Giovanna Imperiale, che havea mandato un Commissario Finto all'Autore, da parte de S. Georgio', inc. 'Lustrissima Patronna, / Moè chiù, moè chiù Giurian ve rà perdonna'; (ff. 43v-45) 'Per il Signor Giovanni Francesco Grimaldo Capitanio di Sestri', inc. 'Lustrissimo Patron, / Ro povero Giurian'; (ff. 45v-47v) 'Alla Signora Delia Spinola invitandola ad esser Comare', inc. 'Lustrissima Patronna, / Infin per sorte bonna'; (ff. 48-51v) 'Al Signor Michele Merello moderno versificatore. Risposta in nome del Signor Paolo Sommovigo', inc. 'Patron caro, e Colendissimo / Zà che voi m'hei feto gratia'; (ff. 51v-53) 'Ringratia il Signor Giovanni Maria Spinola per un favore promessoli ad Instanza del Signor Carlo Imperiale', inc. 'Lustrissimo Patron, / Merlin rò Reverendo in l'Odissea'; (ff. 53-54) 'Al Signor Giovanni Maria Spinola. Invito ad esser Compadre', inc. 'Lustrissimo Patron v'arregordavo'; (ff. 54-55) 'Bonne Feste al Signor Marco Centurione', inc. 'Mentre à ro son dell'armonia superna'; (ff. 55v-61) 'Nel tempo del Serenissimo Alessandro Spinola Duce di Genova. Introduttione di certa causa avanti il Serenissimo Senato', inc. 'Suonò Liguria mille cetre, e mille'; (ff. 61v-63v) 'Supplica di Polonia Bada al Signor Francesco Maria Lomellin Capitanio di Sestri', inc. 'Constituta davanti rò Lustrissimo'; (ff. 64-69v) 'Dialogo fra Polonia Bada, e Nicolosinna, nelle nozze del Signor Giulio Centurione, e la Signora Maddalena figlia del Signor Lazzaro Spinola Grimaldo Ceba', inc. 'Indie'. Comà, buttè pù la ra rocca'; (ff. 70-73v) 'In lode della Gattafura', inc. 'Oh che bonna Gattafura; (ff. 73v-86v) 'Sopra il Padre Stoppa Predicatore in S. Agostino', inc. 'Comà Maddarenin cose ne dio?'; (ff. 87-87v) 'A ra Signora Maddalena Lomellinna. Information Cattiva d'una Mama', inc. 'Lustrissima Patronna, / Sentine unna stizzina'; (ff. 87v-90) 'A rò Scio Carlo Lomellin. Information bonna d'atra Mama', inc. 'Lustrissimo Patron, / Perche voi ù assertè, che mi desbrixo'; (ff. 90v-99) 'Viaggio con Tartanna', inc. 'Nò Donne, e Cavaiè, nò arme, e amor'; (ff. 99v-102v) 'Il Pollarolo compagno di mal Viventi, Quattr'Ove Parpella e Pezzetta, quali furono impiccati. Il Musico Bordigone posto in Gallea in Vita, come peritus in arte, et il detto Pollarolo per haver presa impunità fù rellegato in Corsica, di dove ritornato dall'esilio, fece ritorno alli furti, per far anch'esso il fine de Compagni', inc. 'Figgi piggiemmo exempio'.
2. ff. 22v-23. Giovanni Giacomo Cavalli: Poem. 'Risposta à ra Canzon dell'Aze drò Segnò Giurian Rosso feta da Gio Giacomo Cavallo', inc. 'Sciò Giurian, che humò per cortesia'.
3. ff. 24v-25. Girolamo Borlasca: Poem. 'Del Signor Geronimo Borlasca', inc. 'Rà Marottia, ra Cura, e Testamento'.
4. ff. 25v-26. Anonymous poems. (f. 25v) 'D'incerto', inc. 'A voi scior Giurian, che si hei cantou'; (f. 26) 'Epittaffio del medesimo', inc. 'Quello grand'Aze cosi cognoscivo'.
5. ff. 27-27v. Giovanni Giacomo Porrata: Poem. 'Del Signor Giovanni Giacomo Porrata, Prete, Dottore, e Cugino dell'Autore', inc. 'L'Aze scior Giurian, ch'hei voi laudou'.
6. ff. 103-139v. Giuliano Rossi: 'Ro Viaggio de Venexa con Dame', poem in octaves; [7 May 1655]. Table of characters (f. 103) 'Fior di Spina – Signora Giulia Imperiale', inc. (f. 103v) 'Canto / Le Donne, i Can levrier, le Vacche, e i Tori', expl. 'Che xoè de poi rò canto se viremmo'. The poem is divided in three canti. See M. Merello in A compagna, no. 5 (Genoa, 1929).
Paper; ff. 139+ii, plus one unfoliated blank after f. 4; lower part of f. 1 missing and replaced. Old pagination in ink '1-270' (ff. 5-139v). 176 x 122mm. One Italian hand: same hand as in Add. 17535 and 17536. Edges mottled in light red and green, as in Add. MSS. 17535, 17536. Original binding lost, but most probably identical to the late 17th-early 18th cent. binding of mottled brown leather with gilt-tooled spine in compartments of Add. MSS. 17535, 17536.
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Poetry ITALIAN: Giuliano Rossi, of Genoa; poet in dialect: Poems in Genoese dialect by Giuliano Rossi: mid 17th cent.: Ital: Copy.
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- f. i Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/19/C): bef. 1828.
- ff. 22v-23 Giovanni Giacomo Cavalli, of Genoa; poet: Poem to G. Rossi in Genoese dialect: mid 17th cent.: Ital: Copy.
- ff. 24v-25 Girolamo Borlasca, of Genoa: Poem to G. Rossi in Genoese dialect by Girolamo Borlasca: mid 17th cent.: Ital: Copy.
- ff. 27-27v Giovanni Giacomo Porrata, of Genoa: Poem to G. Rossi in Genoese dialect by Giovanni Giacomo Porrata: mid 17th cent.: Ital: Copy.
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- Western Manuscripts
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- Additional Manuscripts
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
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- Languages:
- English
Italian - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1630
- End Date:
- 1670
- Date Range:
- Mid 17th century
- Era:
- CE
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- Custodial History:
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Robert Harding Evans, bookseller: Purchased from (lot 5, part), 8 Dec. 1830.
Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford: Owned, bef. 1828.
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- Names:
- Borlasca, Girolamo, of Generaloa
Cavalli, Giovanni Giacomo, of Generaloa, poet
Evans, Robert Harding, bookseller and auctioneer, 1777-1857
North, Frederick, 5th Earl of Guilford, politician and colonial administrator, 1766-1827,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000034584770
Porrata, Giovanni Giacomo, of Generaloa
Rossi, Giuliano, of Generaloa, poet in dialect