1791 · Florentiae
by Fossius, Ferninandus
Florentiae: Typographia Francisci, Moücke, 1791. Large 4to. 290 x 210 mm.,[ 11 ¼ x 8 ¼ inches]. xii, 160 pp. Illustrated with an engraved portrait based on a medal struck in 1493 with a likeness of Rinucinni on one side and a lion with a serpents tail on the other. Engraved by Gio. Battista Cecchi. Bound in full mottled calf git a gilt border in a leaf and vine pattern on the boards, spine ruled from top to bottom in a link patterned design, leather title-label. Binding slightly rubbed on the edges, but a very good copy in a contemporary binding.
Alamanni Rinuccini (1426-1499) was a student of Poggio, the early Renaissance humanists, who discovered, translated, and copied early Greek and Roman manuscripts and made them available to the Florentine elite. Rinuccini, along with Poggio, Vespasiano di Bisticci the Florentine booksllers, , Pierfilippo Pandolfini, Donato Acciaiouoli and Andrea Alamanni, were members of a Florentine salon who studied and debated these Greek manuscripts. Rinuccini was instrumental in convincing Giovanni Argyropulus to come to Florence to teach Greek language and literature at the Florentine Studio.
Monumenta ad Alamanni Rinuccini is the work of Ferdinando Fossi, the 18th century Librarian of the Bibliotecha Magliabechiana¸ the great library of Florence. He was a linguist and worked for decades on the early manuscripts in the collection. Monumenta is both a biography of the life and work of Rinuccini and a study of the manuscripts that he and Vespasiano brought to the collections. It also contains information on the work conducted by Argyrupulus while teaching in Florence.
Margery Ganz. “Florentine Friendship”. Renaissance Quarterly, v. 43 no. 2 1990, pp. 372-383. Carlo Fantappiè. Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol 49 (1997). (Inventory #: 1335)
Alamanni Rinuccini (1426-1499) was a student of Poggio, the early Renaissance humanists, who discovered, translated, and copied early Greek and Roman manuscripts and made them available to the Florentine elite. Rinuccini, along with Poggio, Vespasiano di Bisticci the Florentine booksllers, , Pierfilippo Pandolfini, Donato Acciaiouoli and Andrea Alamanni, were members of a Florentine salon who studied and debated these Greek manuscripts. Rinuccini was instrumental in convincing Giovanni Argyropulus to come to Florence to teach Greek language and literature at the Florentine Studio.
Monumenta ad Alamanni Rinuccini is the work of Ferdinando Fossi, the 18th century Librarian of the Bibliotecha Magliabechiana¸ the great library of Florence. He was a linguist and worked for decades on the early manuscripts in the collection. Monumenta is both a biography of the life and work of Rinuccini and a study of the manuscripts that he and Vespasiano brought to the collections. It also contains information on the work conducted by Argyrupulus while teaching in Florence.
Margery Ganz. “Florentine Friendship”. Renaissance Quarterly, v. 43 no. 2 1990, pp. 372-383. Carlo Fantappiè. Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol 49 (1997). (Inventory #: 1335)
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