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Latin Verse of the Renaissance: The Collection and Exhibition at the Houghton Library

Roger E. Stoddard

nlike the developing literatures of the time that were segregating U authors and readers by language, Neo-Latin literature could be shared in the Renaissance by all the learned world. Major authors and scholars composed and read Latin verse, creating an extensive and serious body of European literature. Many years ago I found that Rodney Dennis, Curator of Manuscripts in the Harvard Col- lege Library, shared my interest in it. Convinced of the permanent value of the texts, which were largely undervalued by scholars, librarians, collectors, and booksellers, we spurred each other on to collect. It could hardly be claimed that Harvard was without considerable resources in the field. Any strong collection of incunabula and later Renaissance books will include ROGERE. SrooDARDis Cura- Latin verse, and the libraries of Charles Eliot Norton and Mary Bryant Brandegee, tor of Rare Books in the Harvard College Library and received in 1905 and 1908, strengthened what was already here. The availability Senior Lecturer on English in of the Constantius fund seems to have encouraged librarians at Widener to improve the Department of English and on it. William A. Jackson, Houghton's founding librarian and Harvard's rare books American Literature and Lan- acquisitor from 1938 until his death in 1964, obtained many of the rarities, includ- guage, Harvard University. ing Latin verse written by authors important in fields outside literature. Still, impor- tant books and manuscripts remained to be found, as may be seen from the receipt dates in the catalogue that follows. Two Paris booksellers and one from New York had anticipated our dedication to the subject. Georges Heilbrun was a source of both major and minor items; his published catalogues are rich in the literature. Andre Jammes of the Librairie Paul Jammes devoted a graceful catalogue to Poeteslatins de la renaissance(95 items, 1968). All the while Emil Offenbacher of New York, a dealer best known for his exper- tise in the history of science, hoarded the books, selling hardly a one. Buying heav- ily from Heilbrun andJammes, we enticed Offenbacher to sell all the original editions that Harvard lacked. Thanks to the George L. Lincoln and Amy Lowell funds, hundreds of books and several manuscripts came to the Library, so that over one thousand volumes of fifteenth and sixteenth-century verse are now here. The col- lection is the best in the United States. Each acquisition is a story in itsel£ Completing the eight-volume set of Pontano (1505-1512) was hard enough, but finding his Lullabies, printed in a 1498 collec- tion of Tifernus, seemed impossible. Only Yale had the book in this country, but Fred Schreiber found a copy for us. Likewise, the often-reprinted Zodiacusvitae of 1535 was held only by the Bancroft Library, but Diana Parikian located it so that 20 HARVARD LIBRARY BULLETIN

we did not have to accept Bancroft Librarian James Hart's generous offer of a loan. A puzzling gap was the Coryciana of 1524, the most beautiful of the anthologies, printed in Arrighi's handsome Chancery type. That book came from Georges Heilbrun's shelves. H. P. Kraus supplied most of the manuscript anthologies, coming as they did from his remainder of Sir Thomas Phillipps's collection. The only serious desideratum that I can think of just now is the Pano-printed verses of Marco Antonio Flaminio, 1515. His lived on in the published antholo- gies, but that first, separate volume is one very rare book. Finally, Rodney Dennis and I thought we were ready for a celebration. We began to circulate a kind of prospectus for an exhibition, illustrated catalogue, and sym- posium. Much to our dismay, we found that we were still ahead of our time, so far as funding was concerned. Never mind that in 1975 Pierre Laurens had selected and translated his Musae Reduces;Anthologie de la poesielatine dans ['Europede la Renais- sance(Leyden, E.J. Brill) and in 1979 Alessandro Perosa and John Sparrow had seen into print their long-awaited RenaissanceLatin Verse,an Anthology (Chapel Hill, North Carolina), while Fred J. Nichols had selected and translated An Anthology of Neo- Latin Poetry (New Haven, Yale). We went ahead anyhow. The Harvard Classics Department was immediately and unfailingly helpful. Col- leagues there shared with us income from the Louis Curtis bequest "to promote the study of Latin." John]. Slocum, the late Robert H. Taylor, Phyllis Gordan, Mason Hammond, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schreiber contributed funds. We planned to pub- lish an illustrated exhibition catalogue, publicize an exhibition, and present a sym- posium. Also, we hoped to print a small selection of verse just to tease our audience into reading. The exhibition would feature the major poets and anthologies, representing other poets and the literary genres. It might omit the occasional poems that outnumber them: pamphlet and broadside verse on births, weddings, deaths, etc. "Only an exhi- bition can show what the books look like," we said, "and only an illustrated cata- logue can convey the appearance of illustrations, types, and layout in some of the most elegant and strong examples of Renaissance book making." Rodney Dennis's wife, Christie, felt that we had to provide translations for our originals if we expected people to read the Latin. Rodney Dennis had the idea to commission new translations. Poematahumanistica decem; Renaissance Latin Poemswith English Translationsby Friendsof the Houghton Library (1986), printed in one thousand copies at the Firefly Press to Larry Webster's designs, was the elegant result. It used up our budget. Obligingly, our generous faculty friends were willing to contribute their serv- ices. On Thursday afternoon 6 February 1986, Dante Della Terza, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, introduced the symposium and the speakers: Richard J. Tarrant, Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Roman Civilization, on "Polizi- ano, Scholar and Poet"; Jan M. Ziolkowski, Professor of Medieval Latin and Com- parative Literature, on "Tito Vespasiano Strozzi's 'Ad psyttacum': a Renaissance Poet Parrots the Past"; and Wendell L. Clausen, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Greek and Latin, "On the of Sannazaro." Exhibits illustrated the lectures and the anthology. The audience overflowed the exhibition room, and students sat on the floor. We were very pleased. Since then John J. Slocum has filled a major gap (see item 21 below), and we have made major purchases from the latest catalogue, Gerard Oberle's Amoenitates poeticaelatinae modernae,sive Cataloguslibrorum poetar. latinor.sec. XI-XX (Montigny- Latin Verseof the Renaissance 21 sur-Canne, 1988). Our dream of producing a catalogue of the entire Harvard holding remains unrealized, but the books are here, awaiting singly or collectively atten- tion by scholars who will integrate them in study of one of the noblest of all the imitations of the past.

RENAISSANCELATIN VERSE: THE EXHIBITIONAT THE HOUGHTON LIBRARY,16 DECEMBER1985 TO 14 FEBRUARY1986

I. GIOVANNIGIOVIANO PONTANO (1426-1503)

1. Pontano's Naeniae, lullabies addressed to his son Lucio, were appended to the Opuscula (, 1498) of Publius Gregorius Tifernus, Greek professor at Paris. 1984 - Amy Lowell fund *84-181

2. One of three copies exhibited of the first volume, the selected poems (Par- thenopei),of the Accademia Pontaniana edition of Pontano's works. Edited by Pietro Summonte and printed by Sigismund Mayr, eight volumes were published at Naples from 1505 to 1512. All are now at Harvard. Scribal manuscripts corrected by Pan- tano were marked precisely by Summonte for the printer so that the printed ver- sion would preserve both text and arrangement of the prototype. 1974 - J. Gilman d'Arcy Paul fund *flC.P7763.B505p

3. A second copy, preserved in its original gilt brown morocco binding, bears the embossed portrait of Pantano after the medal by Adriano Fiorentino. Lent by the late H. Bradley Martin

4. A third copy, opened at Baiarum fiber primus to show "Loquitur puella fuscula," one of the poems translated in Poemata humanisticadecem. 1976 - Duplicate fund *75-1349

5. Among the poems omitted from the Accademia Pontaniana edition but included by Aldo Manuzio in his edition, Pontaniopera (Venice, 1505), is the Meteoro- rum fiber,a didactic poem on natural phenomena composed by Pantano for his son Lucio. Shown was the passage translated in Poemata humanisticadecem. 1963 - Charles D. Weston, gift; from the library of George Benson Weston *IC.P7763.B505o (A)

II. ANGELOPOLIZIANO (1454-1494)

6. The opening lines of Nutriciaand the dedication to Antoniotto Cardinal Gentili were shown. This lengthy verse introduction to the study of ancient and modern poetry is one of four Silvae composed by Poliziano. This first edition is bound with the first edition of another, Manto (both , Miscomini, 1491). 1905 - From the library of Charles Eliot Norton Inc 6151.9 22 HARVARD LIBRARY BULLETIN

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7. Scholia to Nutricia accompany an edition of the Silvae by Francisco Sanchez de las Brozas (Salamanca, 1554). Shown was the editor's copy with manuscript additions. 1944 - James M. Hunnewell, gift; from the library of James F. Hunnewell *IC.P7595.B554s Latin Verseof the Renaissance 23

8. One of three copies exhibited of the Omnia Opera of Poliziano, edited by Alex- ander Sartius and printed by Aldo Manuzio (Venice, 1498). Like Flaminio and others, Poliziano favored the iambic meters of the earliest Christian hymn writers when composing his own hymns. 1951 - William King Richardson, bequest WKR 3.5.5 24 HARVARD LIBRARY BULLETIN

9 and 10. Two additional copies were opened to show "In Violas" from the Liber Epigrammatumlatinorum, which was translated in Poematahumanistica decem. 1919 - James M. Hunnewell, deposit; from the library of James F. Hunnewell Inc 5567 (D) 1908 - Mary Bryant Brandegee, gift in memory of William Fletcher Weld *Inc 5567 (B)

7. Somefurther thoughtsinscribed by the editorFrancisco Sanchez de lasBrozas in his copyef Poliziano's Nutricia (Salamanca, 1554). III. EARLY POETS

10. This first edition (, 1498) of the Adolescentiaof Baptista Mantuanus (1448-1516) is marked by a student, as were many copies oflater editions. Widely employed as a school text, its ten eclogues influenced vernacular literature, includ- ing the work of . 1967 - Mrs. Henry S. Grew, gift Inc 6910 Latin Verseof the Renaissance 25

11. In his TriumphusVeneris (Pforzheim, Anselm, 1509), Heinrich Behel (1472-ca. 1516), professor at Tiibingen and poet laureate, produced a substantial moral satire: the Goddess of Love triumphs over Virtue. 1969 - George L. Lincoln fund *GC5.B3864.509o

12. Sebastian Brant (1458-1521), author of the Narrenschif.f,published his Varia carmina at Basel in 1498. Shown were woodcuts of the poet and of the mark of the printer, Johann Bergmann de Olpe, to whom Brant dedicated a poem on the art of printing. 1908 - Mary Bryant Brandegee, gift in memory of William Fletcher Weld Inc 7779

13. Henrique Cayado (d, 1508) came from Lisbon to study in , publishing his Eclogaeat in 1496. In his second he describes hearing Poliziano lecture, writing his own poems, and escaping death from a chill caught bathing in a fish pond. 1928 - John B. Stetson,Jr., gift; from the libraries of Fernando Palha and Richard Heber *Inc 6662

14. Janos Csezmiczei (1434-1472), celebrated for introducing humanistic learning to his Hungarian homeland, wrote this Panegyricusto Guarino Veronese, his old teacher at , over his Latin name of Janus Pannonius. This first edition was printed at Vienna by Vietor in 1512; later editions followed. 1951 - Imrie de Vegh gift *ZHC.C4974.512p

15. Philosophia, a woodcut signed with the monogram of Albrecht Diirer and probably cut from his design, together with a portrait of the poet surrounded by his sources, both printed and imagined, adorn the Quatuor libri amorum (Nurem- berg, 1502) of Conrad Celtes (1459-1508), Poet Laureate. 1973 - Philip Hofer, gift Typ 520.02.269

16. Stamped in ink with Celtes's cipher, this copy of Theocritus, Hesiod, etc. (Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1495/96) bears verses on the endpapers in Celtes's handwriting. 1950 - Mrs. Imrie de Vegh, gift Inc 5549F

17. Celtes's "Ad Sepulum Disidaemonem," translated in Poematahumanistica decem, was shown as it was collected in Libri odarum quatuor (Strasbourg, 1513). 1908 - Mary Bryant Brandegee, gift in memory of William Fletcher Weld *GC.C3323.B5131

18. The ingenious versifier Lancino Curzio (d. 1511) composed tens of thou- sands of lines of Latin verse, three volumes of which were published at Milan in 1521: two decades of Epigrammata and ten books of Sylvae. All are at Harvard, but just the two volumes of Epigrammata were shown: the second volume with the remarkable figure representing the senses on its title page, and the first volume opened at its place marker to show a passage that interested Pierre Louys, onetime owner of this set. 1968 - Amy Lowell fund *IC5.C9494.521e v.1-2 26 HARVARD LIBRARY BULLETIN

16. The cipherof ConradCeltes, stampedin his copyof Theocritus, Hesiod, etc. (Venice,1495/96).

19. Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), contentious Humanist, advises Lorenzo Valla to avoid religious controversy in the second decade of his Satyrae (Milan, Valdarfer, 1476). 1935 - Murray Anthony Potter, gift; from the libraries of Maffeo Pinelli and Michael Wodhull Inc 5881 Latin Verseof the Renaissance 27

17. Woodcutportrait of the poet, his library,and his musesfacing the openingpage of Conrad Celtes's Libri odarum quatuor (Strass- bourg, 1513).

20. In Opera varia (Paris, Bocard for Gerlier, 1498) Robert Gaguin (1433-1501), teacher at the Sorbonne, collected his "Ars versificatoria" and poems, including "Oratio ad studiosos artium humanitatis." 1914 - The Saturday Club, gift; from the library of George Dunn of Woolley Hall Inc 8163 28 HARVARD LIBRARY BULLETIN

18. Woodcutrepresentation of the Senses, on the title page in the second volume of Curzio's Epigrammata (Milan, 1521).

21. Michael Tarchaniotta Marullus (d. 1500), exile and soldier, had published his Epigrammata in 1488/89. 1 For this edition of the collection, printed at Florence in 1497, he enlarged the Epigrammata, adding Hymni, including the poem "To the Moon," a farewell to Florence recalling Ovid's moonlit farewell to . 1908 - Mary Bryant Brandegee, gift in memory of William Fletcher Weld Inc 6415

1 Lacking from the library at the time of the exhibition, a copy of this very rare pamphlet was presented to Har- vard in 1986 by John]. Slocum. Latin Verseof the Renaissance 29

22. Massimo Pacifico (d. ca. 1500) was among the most gifted, iflicentious, of the Renaissance poets who wrote in Latin; and his Hecatelegium(Florence, Miscomini, 1489) is among the rarest, if notorious, of fifteenth-century books. 1942 - B. H. Nash fund Inc 6150

23. Strozii poetaepater etfilius (Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1513) are Tito Vespasiano (1425-1505) and Ercole (ca. 1470-1508). This extensive collection was opened to show "Ad psyttacum" by Tito Vespasiano, the unpopular tax collector of the Este court, who was the subject of Professor Jan Ziolkowski's talk at the Symposium held in the exhibition room on 6 February. 1938 - Orie Bates, gift *IC.St897.513p

IV. PIETROBEMBO (1470-1547)

24. Benacus,the only substantial Latin poem to be published in his lifetime, was written by to honor Gian Matteo Giberti when he was named of Verona by Pope Clement VII. In this first edition (Rome, Calvo, 1524) the text is supplemented with poems by Agostino Beazzano addressed to Bembo, Giberti, and to the city of Verona. 1957 - S. A. E. Morse fund *IC5.B4225.524b

25. In this autograph letter to Rodolfo Pio di Carpi, written from Venice on 24 January 1539, Bembo speaks of his work on the continuation of the official his- tory of Venice that Sabellico had begun. 1974 - B. H. Nash fund tMS Ital 115 (1)

26. "Ad Lucretiam Borgiam" was written in 1502-03 to the woman with whom Bembo fell deeply in love. It was printed posthumously in his Carminum libellus (Venice, Scotto, 1553), a collection derived, apparently, from manuscripts Bembo had prepared for publication. 1905 - From the library of C. E. Norton *IC5.B4225.553c

27. On the flyleaf an unidentified contemporary has transcribed Bembo's "Lucilii Bembi filii epitaphium," and, facing, there is a translation and note inscribed by Charles Eliot Norton. The book is Bembo's Prose (Venice, Tacuino, 1525). 1905 - From the library of C. E. Norton *f1C5.B4225.525p (B)

V. ANTHOLOGIES

28. Carmina, ad PasquillumHerculem obtruncantemHydram referentemposita anno M.D.X. is the second and larger of two collections of Pasquinades collected and printed at Rome by Giacomo Mazzocchi in 1509 and 1510. Pasquil or Pasquin, so called, was a mutilated statue dug up in 1501 and placed near Piazza Navona where it was adorned with verses, lampoons, and satires, eventually lending its name to satirists throughout Europe. 1968 - Christian A. Zabriskie, gift in memory of Edward Powis Jones *IC5.P2654C.1510 30 HARVARD LIBRARY BULLETIN

CARMtNA, adPafq~illum Herculcm obtruncantcmHydram.' 28. Title page ofthe secondcollec- referenttmpofica Anno tion ofPasquinades to bepublished . M. D. X. by Giacomo Mazzocchi (Rome, 1510).

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29. This manuscript collection of devotional poems and prayers (, late 16th century) includes texts by Flaminio and Pontano, as well as Georg Sabinus, Philipp Melanchthon, and Georg Fabricius. 1968 - S. A. E. Morse fund MS Lat 325 Latin Verseof the Renaissance 31

30. Angelo Poliziano's "In Laurentium Medicem. Intonata per Arrigum Isaac," translated in Poematahumanistica decem, appears here as collected by an unidentified Italian-Ferrarese?-about 1550. Poems by Bembo, Marullus, Navagero, and the Strozzi are included in the manuscript. 1982 - Amy Lowell fund; from the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps MS Lat 358

31. A collection of Latin poetry, mainly in the hand of Benedetto Volpi (Italy, ca. 1550). Among some forty poets represented are Marco Antonio Flaminio and Girolamo Fracastoro, as well as Pietro Bembo, , Jean Du Bellay, Jacobo Sadoleto, and Janus Vitalis. 1966 - Amy Lowell fund MS Typ 531

32. This bound collection of manuscript poems of the sixteenth and seven- teenth centuries, including Latin as well as Italian texts, was assembled for the Colonna family. 1982 - Amy Lowell fund; from the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps Uncatalogued

33. Coryciana(Rome, 1524) is the earliest anthology of Renaissance Latin verse and the most beautiful in its typography. Printed at the private press of the writing master and papal scribe Ludovico degli Arrighi with types modelled on the "can- cellaresca corsiva," the book collects poems composed, read, or hung on trees and statues at the Tiber villa of Johann Goritz of Luxembourg. Among poets represented are Ulrich von Hutten, Pietro Bembo,Jacobo Sadoleto, Baldassare Castiglione, and Marco Girolamo Vida. 1973 - C. T. Keller fund *73-319

34. Johann Oporin's anthology, Bucolicorumautores XXXVIII (Basel [15461),offers 156 eclogues including seventeen by Helius Eoban (1488-1540), Luther's "rex poetarum." 1922 - Constantius fund *GC5.Op564.546b

35. Doctissimorumnostra aetateItalorum epigrammata(Paris [15481), collected by the chancellor of the University, Jean de Gagny, is dominated by Marco Antonio Flaminio and Andrea Navagero. 1981 - J. Gilman d'Arcy Paul and Lodge-Stickney funds *80-1384

36. Carmina quinque illustriumpoetarum (Venice, 1548) was the first anthology to be reprinted and augmented. The Five, whose reputations it promoted, are Pietro Bembo, Andrea Navagero, Baldassare Castiglione, Giovanni Cotta, and Marco Anto- nio Flaminio. Shown was the passage beginning "Quin ultra Oceanum" in which Flaminio promises his patron, Alessandro Cardinal Farnese, that the Latin poetry of his day would be studied in the New World, where Latin learning was already flourishing. 1943 - Edward Southworth Hawes, bequest *ICS.B4225.A548c (A) 1963 - William S. Spaulding fund *ICS.B4225.A548c (B) 32 HARVARD LIBRARY BULLETIN

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37. The 1552 edition of Carmina quinque illustrium poetarum (Florence, Torren- tino) adds unpublished poems by Marco Antonio Flaminio, including "Comparat animum suum flori," translated in Poemata humanistica decem. 1899 - H. L. Pierce, bequest *IC5.B4225.A548cc Latin Verseof the Renaissance 33

VI. LATER POETS

38. Homily from picture and verse, mutually enhancing, was the invention of Andrea Alciati (1492-1550) whose Emblematum fiber is shown in its very first edi- tion ([Augsburg] 1531). The Emblem Book perpetuated Latin verse-making well into the eighteenth century; vernacular translations of the poems were often printed along with the Latin. 1941 - Philip Hofer, gift Typ 520.31.132

39. Upon publication of his Nugae (Paris, Vascosin, 1533) the tutor Nicolas Bour- bon (1503-1550) was thrown into prison, suspected of heresy. Shown were three poems to , an admirer of the poet's skill. 1944 - A. R. Sheldon fund *FC5.B6658.533n

40. Pasquillorumtomi duo ([Basel] 1544), edited by Caelius Secundus Curio, is an extensive collection of Latin, Italian, and German epigrams and other satires by Curio, Hutten, and other reformers against the pope and religious orders. 1937 - From the library of Herbert Weir Smyth *NC5.Er153.A544p

41. "Grobianus, or the complete booby," as it was once translated into English, is a satire on manners. Written by Friedrich Dedekind (d. 1598) and printed at Frank- furt am Main by Christian Egenolph in 1549, it is one of the greatest and most influential German works of its kind. 1959 - D. P. Wheatland, gift *GC5.D3602.549g

42. Merlini Cocaepoetae Mantuani fiberMacaronices libri xvii (Venice, Paganini, 1517) is the work ofTeofilo Folengo (1491-1544). One of the principal Italian works in the macaronic literature, it relates the adventures of Baldus in Latin verses mixed with words and phrases in Mantuan patois. 1961 - Amy Lowell fund *IC5.F6985M.1517

43. Syphilis sive morbusgallicus (Verona 1530) by Girolamo Fracastoro (1478-1553) gave the disease its name. Pietro Bembo, to whom the poem is dedicated, requested that references to the mercury cure be deleted in favor of guiacum, thereby per- petuating the use of a largely ineffectual medicine. Lent by the Countway Library, Harvard Medical School; the Sunderland copy from the Boston Medical Library, purchased with the Wadsworth fund

44. Zodiacus vitae pulcherrimum opus atque utifissimum (Venice, Bernardino Vitalis [1535]) is a didactic poem of some ten thousand lines, divided into twelve books named after signs of the Zodiac. Beginning with this first edition, the name of the author is given as Marcellus Palingenius Stellatus, which conceals the identity of one Pier Angelo Manzolli (ca. 1500-ca. 1540). The poem brings together many diverse philosophies, and its unorthodoxy caused it eventually to be placed on the Index. Over sixty editions, it has been estimated, were printed, making it the most popular Latin poem of the Renaissance. 1982 - Amy Lowell fund *IC5.M3198.1535 34 HARVARD LIBRARY BULLETIN

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38. The first Emblem Book, Alciati's Emblematum liber ([Augsburg] 1531). 45. The verses of the ambassador Andrea Navagero (1483-1529) were published first in this memorial volume, edited by his friends: Orationes duae, carminaquenon- nulla (Venice, Tacuino, 1530). 1945 - Constantius fund *flC5.N2275.530o

46. With his Arcadia (1502) (1458-1530) invented a new ver- nacular literary form. Then he spent twenty years on the composition of this brief (1,500 lines) Christian epic in Latin verse, De partu virginis, publishing it at Naples in 1526, together with his Piscatory Eclogues, in which fishermen replace the tradi- tional shepherds. 1915 - Daniel B. Fearing, gift *flC5.Sa585.526d

4 7. This sumptuous copy of Sannazaro's De partu virginis and Piscatoria(Naples, 1526) is printed on vellum, the headings printed (or stamped) in gold. 1954 - Mr. and Mrs. Ward M. Canaday; from the library of Gentile di Giuseppe *flC5.Sa585.526da Latin Verseof the Renaissance 35

42. The most celebrated book of its genre, Folengo's Liber 48. This edition of Sannazaro's Poems (Rome, 1526) was opened to show the Macaronices libri xvii (Venice, 1517). passage which begins "Ast ubi palmiferae," translated in Poemata humanisticadecem. 1915 - Daniel B. Fearing, gift *IC5.Sa585.526dc

49. In his Prosopopeiaanimalium (Vienne, Bonhomme, 1541) Jean Ursin created a carnival of the animals in Latin verses, annotated by his friend Jacques Olivier. 1972 - Amy Lowell fund; from the library of Emil Offenbacher *FC5.Ur755.541p

50. Marco Girolamo Vida (1470-1566) may have advised better than he wrote in the De artepoetica (Rome, 1527), which was opened to show a passage on revision. 1913 - Alain Campbell White, gift Typ 525.27.869

51. Vida's Christias, a Virgilian epic recounting the life of Christ, was written at the suggestion of . Published at Cremona in 1535 and acclaimed as a model, it is never compared favorably with the religious verse of Sannazaro. Shown was the passage describing the Crucifixion. 1959 - S. A. E. Morse fund *IC5.V6673.535c 36 HARVARD LIBRARY BULLETIN

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OiiuaH. Elephas. , P.1tbi1.p1ct, .uitttnilllMin1:/on ab rt f ilhiflsbi-1Jtm1111t mcm-pot-a Jixit: brutorlcor. por,migr• I rt anlt,tas:animdlltqutsnegtt tj[e mibi! -·· P trp,nagnofco duftm,(!)' terr~ prollratu, acloro: 'J!ltpb3tu,,, Seilcaittr" gladto5ffierno tyrannt tuos. 11criingtn ij Jere mibiingenumt,probitas,prudtnfi(t f U11t11ta: rftut. Utms f,tproditlMfl Hine triuite& faluIUJtUna ma~a tolo: .UquJdoU.J)mtt J ttr4tfl.M4I puellans11ttmdolentigin, u,ultus. ..lididgt. ~xpleo,iurati uota~fan/1a tbott • . lttrtltf # ~td

49. In his Prosopopeia anima- , Aper. lium (Vienne, 1541),Jean Ursin Oliua. , .. . . . createda carnivalof the animalsin Latin verses,with annotationsby rir!;:Sut11 [ttef,µ apet;~t:Wl~"'~etuen{l,i4,~ b~lldf; hisfriend Jacques Olivier. .trtro,.. tct · R,lllali()p,,?Jtt'ltre~ quifora .btlla ,:,aro. • ... :'!;J?tt!~:. Std eun_c~erg~ lut?(fl~ ~t.-'1atllt)l.";'e!flrt1t J, . . · traor41tf•..·.. . Fu!~: pt(rmfaftf•~~befl,-, linio.. P' tflica((;)" {ot,i/!l!I~ :11tfl{te .frlllillkltoH,n,t: ..· YrlMc;,.i. , V! ualeatJi.tiens $ea Latin Verseef the Renaissance 37

..... IH ···• _ • QJ d""fenO!,,,,Pfail.~ 52. Joannes Secundus holds the At; loB,l,xtr, s,or1/li medallionportrait of his Julia in this engravedportrait from the Ley- ..·- ~· ,,,,.Jwk.·Kmu'°'"''· ...... den, 1619, edition of his works. ,l:~_'fJfl>YK.·· .• li,pl,r I 8c,rd"'6.

VII. JOANNESSECUNDUS (1511-1536)

52. Joannes Secundus was shown with the medallion portrait of his Julia which he fashioned himself and which is illustrated on the title page of this collection edited by Peter Schryver (Leyden, 1619). 1971 - S. A. E. Morse fund *NC5.Se266.619o

53. The opening page was shown in the rare first edition of the Basia (Lyon, Gryphius, 1539). 1944 - Constantius fund *NC5.Se266.539b

54. "Basium XVI," a particularly successful Catullan imitation, is translated in Poemata humanistica decem. It was exhibited in the first Opera of Joannes Secundus (Utrecht, 1541). 1954 - Duplicate fund *NC5.Se266.541o 38 HARVARD LIBRARY BULLETIN

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55. The autograph manuscript of Honore Gabriel Riquetti, comte de Mirabeau's prose translation of the Basia. The translator's preface remains unpublished. 1966 - Amy Lowell fund fMS Fr 245