Orazio Lombardelli. Treatise on the Tuscan language
Reference code
MSS/0046
Title
Orazio Lombardelli. Treatise on the Tuscan language
Date
1592-1597
Level of description
item
Extent and format
Paper; ff. iv + 81.
Quarto.
Leather binding, brown (rebacked), blind-tooled. Bookplate of Dr Thomas Morell, FRS, FSA (d. 1784), fol. iv.
Quarto.
Leather binding, brown (rebacked), blind-tooled. Bookplate of Dr Thomas Morell, FRS, FSA (d. 1784), fol. iv.
Scope and content
"De' Fonti della Lingua Toscana Ragionamento d'Orazio Lombardelli senese, Tranquillo Vmoroso" (fol. 2). A treatise on the Tuscan (Italian) language addressed to Sir Henry Wotton and written for him when he was in Italy; dated at the end (fol. 80v), Purification of the BVM (2 February), 1592. Italian.
Autograph letter (fol. 1v) of Sir Henry Wotton, 19 Apr. 1597, presenting the MS to his friend, Sir Maurice Barkley (MP for Somerset, 1597-1614), and saying that the book had been written for him in Sienna and left in the hands of a gentleman of Naples in Geneva, from whom he had that morning received it.
The treatise, published as I Fonti Toscani (1598), is a detailed survey of the sources of the Tuscan language with many references to ancient and modern writers. Wotton's name occurs as addressee throughout. The final salutation includes a reference to 'nostro Signor Ruberto Titi'.
The present MS is probably the unlocated document cited in Logan Pearsall Smith, "Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton" (1907), I, 22, n. 3. (Inf. Professor Steven May).
Autograph letter (fol. 1v) of Sir Henry Wotton, 19 Apr. 1597, presenting the MS to his friend, Sir Maurice Barkley (MP for Somerset, 1597-1614), and saying that the book had been written for him in Sienna and left in the hands of a gentleman of Naples in Geneva, from whom he had that morning received it.
The treatise, published as I Fonti Toscani (1598), is a detailed survey of the sources of the Tuscan language with many references to ancient and modern writers. Wotton's name occurs as addressee throughout. The final salutation includes a reference to 'nostro Signor Ruberto Titi'.
The present MS is probably the unlocated document cited in Logan Pearsall Smith, "Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton" (1907), I, 22, n. 3. (Inf. Professor Steven May).
Creator
Lombardelli, Orazio (c 1542-1608), Sienese scholar and writer
Wotton, Henry (1568-1639), Knight, diplomat and writer
Berkeley, Maurice (c 1577-1617), Knight, member of parliament
Wotton, Henry (1568-1639), Knight, diplomat and writer
Berkeley, Maurice (c 1577-1617), Knight, member of parliament
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/46