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The Poems of C. Aurelius Cambinius

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2019

J. F. C. Richards
J. F. C. Richards*
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The Text of this collection often poems, 978 lines written in elegiac couplets, is preserved in a single manuscript (169) in the Biblioteca Augusta at Perugia (ff. 2r-33r). It is listed by Mazzatinti, who gives its date as s.xv ex. and adds a full description, and by Tammaro de Marinis. Internal evidence suggests that the poems may have been written between 1492 and 1494. Although the author, C. Aurelius Cambinius, is not mentioned by Bottiglioni or other literary historians, the Cambini family is well known. Andrea and Bernardo Cambini appear both in historical documents of the period and as authors. Bernardo Cambini wrote sonnets and Andrea Cambini wrote historical works and Tuscan translations of works written in classical and humanist Latin.

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Studies in the Renaissance , Volume 12 , 1965 , pp. 73 - 109
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1965

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10 L. Pastor, The History of the Popes, ed. R. F. Kerr, XI (London, 1912), 201-202; cf. A. Ciaconius, Vitae etgesta summorumpontificum … (Rome, 1601), pp. 1124-1125. See also Kristeller, P. O., Studies in Renaissance Thought and Letters (Rome, 1956), p. 187.Google Scholar

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13 W. Leonard Grant, “The Life of Naldo Naldi of Florence', Studies in Philology LX (1963), 606-617; ‘The Major Poems of Naldo Naldi', Manuscripta vi (1962), 131-154; 'The Minor Poems of Naldo Naldi', Manuscripta VII (1963), 3-17, 90-102.

14 P. O. Kristeller refers to Naldi in his Suppletnentum Ficinianum (Florence, 1937), 11, 260-265, where he gives the text of five poems that Naldi wrote to Ficino; cf. p. 328, n. 14. See also P. O. Kristeller, Studies in Renaissance Thought and Letters, pp. 385-389, A. Delia Torre, Storia dell'Accademia Platonica di Firenze (Florence, 1902), pp. 668-681.

15 R. de Roover, op. cit., pp. 348, 357.

16 A. Warburg, op. cit., 1, 198, n. 2.

17 A. Warburg, op. cit., 1, 198-199 and Tafel xxix, xxx, xxxi.

18 The writer would like to thank Dott. Olga Marinelli, director of the Biblioteca Augusta in Perugia, for sending a microfilm and giving permission for the publication of these poems, and also for her advice about the handwriting and corrections in the manuscript. He also thanks Prof. Leonard Grant for his advice and is especially grateful to Prof. Paul Kristeller and Prof. James Hutton for the help they have given him in preparing this article.