Cento imprese /
fatte da fra Francesco Cuomo nella caduta del cipresso nel giardino del sig.re Vittorio Prioli in Leccio à II di marzo 1615.
Description
- Language(s)
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Italian ; Latin
- Published
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[Italy, 1615?]
- Subjects
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Sezzo, Giovanni
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Sezzo, Giovanni /
Poetry.
Cuomo, Francesco,
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Cuomo, Francesco, /
fl. ca. 1615
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Cuomo, Francesco, / fl. ca. 1615 /
Manuscripts.
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) /
Illinois
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) / Illinois /
Urbana.
Manuscripts, Italian
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Manuscripts, Italian /
Illinois
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Manuscripts, Italian / Illinois /
Urbana.
Cypress
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Cypress /
Pictorial works
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Cypress / Pictorial works /
Early works to 1800.
Emblem books
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Emblem books /
Italy
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Emblem books / Italy /
17th century.
- Summary
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Ms. emblem book, with drawings in sepia and gold ink depicting a falling or fallen cypress tree in the garden of Vittorio Prioli of Leccio, Italy, on 2 March 1615. Most of the mottoes, in Italian or Latin, are taken or adapted from Petrarch or Virgil. Contains two laudatory poems: "Valerio de Palma à Frà Fran.co Cuomo." (fol. 2) and "In Lode dell'Autore frà Gioanne Sezzo. Francescano." (fol. 103).
- Note
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Former shelfmark: Emblems MS 704.946 C92c (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library).
Provenance: "Henri Stegemeier" embossed on front pastedown and fol. 1 -- Purchased from Prof. Henri Stegemeier, 23 April 1982.
Binding: Contemporary limp vellum; gilt edges; "Fran:co Cuomo" in ink on spine.
Collation: Paper, fol. i (pastedown) + 104 (foliated 1-101).
Ms. codex.
- Physical Description
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104 leaves :
paper, ill. ;
225 x 175 mm.
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