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Beccadelli, Antonius

Epistolae familiares.

 

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[a1r] [Beccadelli], Antonius Panormita: Epistolae familiares. ‘Prologus'. Dedicated to Franciscus Arcelius. Incipit: ‘[D]e litteris, quas olim in iuuentute conscripsi in Gallia Cisalpina . . .’ Beccadelli, Epistolarum libri V. Eiusdem Orationes II. Carmina praeterea quaedam quae ex multis ab eo scriptis adhuc colligi potuere, [ed. P. Beccatellus] (Venice, 1553), fol. 1^r -1^v. See Gianvito Resta, L'epistolario del Panormita. Studi per una edizione critica, Università degli Studi di Messina, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Studi e Testi diretti da Michele Catalano, 3 (Messina, 1954), part II, no. 33. Remigio Sabbadini, Cronologia della vita del Panormita e del Valla, Reale Istituto di studi superiori pratici e di perfezionamento in Firenze, Sezione di filosofia e filologia, 25 (Firenze, 1891).

[a2r] [Beccadelli], Antonius Panormita: Epistolae familiares. Incipit: ‘[A]ntonius Panhormita S. P. D. Antonio Cremonae. Si uales, gaudeo. Suades ut uel singulis horis ad te litteras dem . . .’ Epistolarum libri (Venice, 1553) [arranged in a different order]. For the individual letters and their transmission see Resta, L'epistolario del Panormita, part II, nos 188, 134, 327, 5, 112, 620, 87, 608, 350, 352, 38, 349, 356, 148, 413, 185, 458, 328, 406, 262, 411, 164, 541, 111, 136, 388, 313, 115, 68, 361, 403, 312, 622, 597, 594, 401, 442-3, 415, 394, 606, 372, 604, 143, 404, 628, 189, 610, 130, 626, 448, 444, 456, 480, 147, 180, 159, 141, 135, 167, 160, 139, 179, 140, 154, 126, 168, 137, 245, 310, 611, 392, 151, 85, 113, 469, 21, [Letter of Ferdinandus I of Naples, see below], 8, 543, 398, 106, 37, 43, 553, 13, 24, 380, 20, 6, 15, 307, 554, 515, 92, 551, 274, 158, 351, 363, 396, 176, 405, 377, 114, 109, 269, 67, 240, 360, 182, 582, 303, 523, 93, 359, 575, 578, 581*, 579, 138, 452, 588, 198, 178, 131, 177, 453, 572, 603, 613, 91, 595, 598, 89, 108, 445, 592, 627, 607, 629, 266, 78, 99, 263, 192, 155, 146, 128, 183, 478, 81, 470, 152, 601, 619, 378, 614, 393, 237, 569, 11, 514, 34, 10, [Letter of Johannes Ixanensis, see below], 35, 12, 9, 41, 42, 539, 368, 292, 14, 22, 18, 17, 72, 387, 23, 16, 381, 118, 7, 116, 1, 19, 391, 395. The collection includes a letter addressed to Beccadelli by Philippus Maria, Duke of Milan (Resta, L'epistolario del Panormita, no. 581*), and the two letters, listed below, which were neither written by nor addressed to Beccadelli. See also Remigio Sabbadini, Ottanta lettere inedite del Panormita tratte dai codici milanesi, Biblioteca della Società di Storia Patria per la Sicilia orientale, 1 (Catania, 1910), 1-167.

[i1r] Ferdinandus I, King of Naples: [Letter addressed to] Philippus Maria [Visconti], Duke of Milan. Incipit: ‘[D]iu ueritus sum, si puereulus(!) ego tibi tanto principi scriberem . . .’

[k2v] Johannes Ixanensis/Ixaritanus: [Letter addressed to] Petrus Raimus. Incipit: ‘Tuis hisce ad me grauibus et ornatis epistolis . . .’

[k10v] [Beccadelli], Antonius Panormita: ‘Epitaphium'. Incipit: ‘Quaerite, Pierides, alium, qui ploret amores. | Quaerite, qui regum fortia facta canat. | Me pater ille ingens, hominum sator atque redemptor | Euocat, et sedes donat adire pias. | Antonine, decus nostrum, letare resurgam'; 2 elegiac distichs, followed by 1 hexameter. Epistolarum libri (Venice, 1553), fol. 134^v.

Imprint

Imprint: [Naples: Sixtus Riessinger, c.1475]. Folio.

Collation

Collation: [a⁸⁺¹ b⁸ c⁶ d⁸ e⁶ f g⁸ h¹⁰ i⁸ k¹⁰].

References

ISTC: ib00291000

GW: GW 3753; GW Nachträge, 26;

Hain: CR 928 = 929;

Goff: Goff B‑291;

BMC: BMC VI 855;

Proctor: Pr 6675;

Others: CIBN B‑194; Fava–Bresciano 32; Oates 2507; Sheppard 5419-20.

LCN: 13931762

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