Appendix B Short-title Catalogue of Books Sponsored by Cervini
This is an annotated list of the editions planned, supported or inspired directly by Cervini from 1540 onwards. It is arranged according to place of publication and print- ers, following a rough chronological order; books published after Cervini’s death in 1555 and works left unpublished are also included. When identifiable, editors are indi- cated. Publications dedicated to Cervini or retaining thankful mentions to him in the paratext are marked by an asterisk. Other pieces of documentary evidence are to be found in footnotes, unless they have already been illustrated in Chapters 3–7.
Rome
Cervini’s Greek press (Antonio Blado with Stefano Nicolini and Benedetto Giunta) 1. Sophianos, Nikolaos, Περὶ κατασκευῆς καὶ χρήσεως κρικωτοῦ ἀστρολάβου, ca. 1542 2/A. Eustathius of Thessalonica, Παρεκβολαὶ εἰς τὴν Ὁμήρου Ἰλιάδα καὶ Ὀδύσσειαν, 1542, ustc 828521 [vol. i only, ed. by Basilio Zanchi and Niccolò Majorano?] 3. Theophylact of Ohrid, Ἑρμηνεῖα εἰς τὰ τέσσαρα Εὑαγγέλια, 1542, ustc 858975 [ed. by Francisco Torres and Guglielmo Sirleto]
Cervini’s Latin press (Francesco Priscianese) 4. Nicholas i, Epistolae, 1542, ustc 844557 5. Arnobius of Sicca, Disputationum adversus gentes, 1542–1543, ustc 811088– 811089 [ed. by Francesco Priscianese and Girolamo Ferrario] 6. Innocent iii, Decretalium atque aliarum epistolarum tomus primus, 1543, ustc 836338 [ed. by Guglielmo Sirleto?] 7. Bessarion, Orationes, 1543, ustc 814297 8. Henry viii, Assertio septem sacramentorum, 1543, ustc 835634 9. Henry viii, Literarum ad quandam epistolam Martini Lutherum exemplum, 1543, ustc 835635–835636 10. Oribasius, De aquis. Пερὶ ὑδάτων, 1543, ustc 845431 [ed. by Agostino Ricchi]* 11. Aegidianae constitutiones, 1543, ustc 800815 [printing completed in 1545 by Gi- rolama Cartolari] 12. Sensi, Ludovico, Conciones quinque, 1543, ustc 855913
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Antonio Blado 13. Sophianos, Nikolaos, [Totius Graeciae descriptio], ca. 1540 [lost edition] 14. Pseudo-Gregory of Nazianzus, Tραγῳδία, Χριστòς πάσχων, 1542, ustc 802984 [ed. by Basilio Zanchi]* 15. Aelian et al., Ποικίλης ἱστορίας βιβλία [et alia], 1545, ustc 807814 [ed. by Camillo Peruschi]1 16. Euripides, Ἠλέκτρα, 1545, ustc 828501 [ed. by Piero Vettori] 17. Fiordibello, Antonio, De auctoritate ecclesiae, 1545, ustc 8297062 18. Pantusa, Giovanni Antonio, De predestinatione et gratia [et De libero arbitrio et operibus], 1545, ustc 7621933 19. Theodoret of Cyrrhus, Περὶ προνοίας λόγοι δέκα, 1545, ustc 858943 [ed. by Niccolò Majorano] 20. Modus baptizandi, preces et benedictione quibus Ecclesia Ethiopicum utitur, 1549, ustc 819944 [ed. by Bernardino Sandro and Pier Paolo Gualtieri]4 2/B. Eustathius of Thessalonica, Παρεκβολαὶ εἰς τὴν Ὁμήρου Ἰλιάδα καὶ Ὀδύσσειαν, 1549– 1551, ustc 828521 [vols. ii–iv, ed. by Niccolò Majorano and Matthaios Devaris] 21. [Augustinians], Constitutiones Ordinis fratrum eremitarum, 1551, ustc 808012*5 22. Egidio Romano, Primus tomus operum, 8 vols., 1554–1555, ustc 828051* 23. Cervini, Marcello (as Pope Marcellus ii), Regulae omnes, ordinationes, et constitu- tiones Cancellariae, April 1555, ustc 809961 24. Cervini, Marcello (as Pope Marcellus ii), Bulla prorogationis subsidii trecentorum millium scutorum, April 15556 25. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheces, October 1555, ustc 809792 [ed. by Benedetto Egio and Scipione Tetti]7
1 The presentation copy to Paul iii, bound with his gilt supralibros, is bav, R.i.iv.1644. 2 The oration addresses Cardinal Sadoleto, Fiordibello’s patron. Prior to publication, a manu- script copy of the work was sent to Cervini, who may have used it in Trent. See Franco Pignatti, ‘Fiordibello, Antonio’, in dbi, xlviii, 1997, pp. 119–121, at p. 120. 3 A copy of this book was sent to Cervini in Trent by the author through Maffei in December 1545: asf, Cervini, vol. 20, f. 85r. The second work, De libero arbitrio, is dedicated to Cardinal Ardinghelli (Pantusa, Liber de predestinatione, f. 31r-v). 4 The presentation copy to Paul iii, bound in Rome with his gilt supralibros, is bav, R.i.iv.2003. Born in Cremona, Sandro worked as Greek and Latin copyist for his master, Reginald Pole, and ostensibly wrote the archetype of the 1535 collective edition of Basil, printed in Venice by Nicolini (see Follieri, ‘Il libro greco’, p. 269 and Chap. 2.1 in the present volume). Modus bapti- zandi was promptly reprinted in Leuven, with three different editions between 1549 and 1550 (ustc 403451, 404906, 408653). 5 Cervini owned one or two copies of this book: Piacentini, La biblioteca di Marcello ii, no. D 33 and D 263. 6 The only known copy of this broadsheet is appended to asf, Cervini, vol. 51, f. 153r (see Fig. 9). 7 In writing the final essay on Apollodorus, Tetti must have used Cervini’s copy of Photius, as demonstrated by Canfora, Il Fozio ritrovato, pp. 62–66. I would add that this was likely to hap- pen when Cervini was still alive, in the first half of 1555. Egio’s thanks to Sirleto, Zanchi and
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26/C. Lippomano, Luigi, Sanctorum priscorum patrum vitae, 1558–1560, ustc 838231 and 838233 [vols. vii–viii]
Giovanni Andrea Dossena 27. Philandrier, Guillaume, In decem libros M. Vitruvii Pollionis de architectura anno- tationes, 1544, ustc 762290
Stefano Nicolini 28. Theodoret of Cyrrhus, Διάλογοι τρεῖς κατά τινων Αἱρέσεων, 1547, ustc 858944 [ed. by Camillo Peruschi]8 29. Damascene, John, Λόγοι τρεῖς ἀπολογητικοί, 1553, ustc 836453 [ed. by Niccolò Majorano]*
Valerio and Luigi Dorico 30. Testamentum Novum cum Epistola Pauli ad Hebreos et Missale [in Ge’ez], 1548– 1549, ustc 803271 [ed. by Tasfâ Sion, Pier Paolo Gualtieri and Mariano Vittori] 31. Vittori, Mariano, Chaldeae, seu Aethiopicae linguae institutiones, 1552, ustc 863716*9 32. Gregory i and Pucci, Antonio, Expositio in omnes libros Veteris et Novi Testamenti a divo Patherio congesta … et Antonii Puccii Card. … homiliae xiiii … , 3 vols., 1553– 1554, ustc 834181 [ed. by Marco Antonio Giorgi?]*10
Onorio in both the dedication to Fulvio Orsini and the scholia to the text (sigs. siiir, sviiiv, uvv) can be regarded as further hints towards Cervini’s involvement in this scholarly en- deavour. Together with the manuscripts owned by Jean Matal, Scipione Tetti and Cardinal Pio da Carpi, Egio made extensive use of a codex from the Farnese library, which had been written by Onorio for the late Paul iii (now BL, Harley MS 5732). It is worth noting, how- ever, that Cervini had commissioned a copy of the Bibliotheca and lent it to Vettori as early as 1550. On this occasion, Cervini remarked that many copies of the work can be found in Rome (BL, Add. MS 10274, ff. 15r, 17r, 21r–23r). 8 Sirleto family’s copy (bav, R.i.iv.2101) was one of the very first to come out from the press; not only does it lack the final errata, as all copies of variant A, but also the initial address to the reader concerning the ambiguous passages of the work. The address was supplied by hand on the front and rear endpapers in what seems to be a neater version of Sirleto’s handwriting. The book was part of the bequest which Sirleto’s brother, Girolamo (died 1576), left to the Vatican Library to help fill gaps in the collection. The inscription to the front endpaper is reported in Mercati, ‘Per la storia della biblioteca apostolica’, p. 257, n. 1 and reproduced in Petitmengin, ‘I manoscritti latini’, p. 68, fig. 14a. Piacentini, La bibliote- ca di Marcello ii, p. viii, mentions two other bav copies with this inscription, but misun- derstood the donor of the bequest, as though he were Guglielmo Sirleto himself. 9 For Cervini’s copy, see Piacentini, La biblioteca di Marcello ii, D 433. 10 For Cervini’s copies, see Piacentini, La biblioteca di Marcello ii, no. D 29 and, possibly, no. D 282.
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33. Ruano, Ferdinando, Sette alphabeti, 1554, ustc 853719* 34. [Servites], Regula beati patris Augustini … Constitutiones fratrum Servorum bea- tae Mariae, 1556, ustc 840890 [ed. by Lorenzo Mazzocchi]11
Anonymous printer 35. Julius iii – Servites, Motu proprio, [1550?], ustc 840894*12
Ippolito Salviani 36. Salviani, Ippolito, Aquatilium animalium historiae, 1554–1558, ustc 85434613 26/B. Lippomano, Luigi, Sanctorum priscorum patrum vitae, 1558, ustc 838232 [vol. vi]
Paolo Manuzio and Stamperia del Popolo Romano 37. Pole, Reginald, De concilio, 1562, ustc 850096 [originally written in 1545, with a dedication to Pole’s colleagues, Cervini and Del Monte]* 38. Chrysostom, John, De virginitate, 1562, ustc 836475 [ed. by Giulio Poggiani]* 39. Gregory of Nyssa, De virginitate, 1562, ustc 834187 [ed. by Pietro Galesini] 40. Ptolemy, De analemmate, 1562, ustc 851491 [trans. by William of Moerbeke and ed. by Federico Commandino]*14 41. Cyprian, Opera, 1563, ustc 815159 [ed. by Latino Latini] 42. Lippomano, Luigi, Catena in Psalmos ex auctoribus ecclesiasticis, 1585, ustc 838237 [ed. by Andrea Lippomano]15
11 This revision of the Servites’ statutes was accomplished by the general of the order, Lorenzo Mazzocchi, along with Cervini as cardinal protector: cf. asf, Cervini, vol. 22, ff. 77r–80v; Pollidori, De vita Marcelli ii commentarius, p. 103; and Franco A. Dal Pino (ed.), Fonti storico-spirituali dei Servi di Maria, iii/1 (Padua: Messaggero, 2008), p. 319, no. 767. 12 Cervini approved the text in his capacity of cardinal protector of the Servites. Cf. also Pollidori, De vita Marcelli ii commentarius, p. 94, which might refer either to this bull or to a larger, apparently lost edition. 13 Cervini’s coat-of-arms stands out at the head of the engraved title-page. 14 In his dedication to Cardinal Ranuccio Farnese, Commandino recalled how Cervini had generously entrusted him with publishing Moerbeke’s medieval Latin translations of two otherwise lost works, Ptolemy’s Analemmate and Archimedes’s On Floating Bodies. Rather than Moerbeke’s original manuscript, which was owned by Cervini (bav, Ott. lat. 1850), the codex used by Commandino appears to be bav, Barb. lat. 304, as persuasively argued by Marshall Clagett, Archimedes in the Middle Ages, iii: The Fate of the Medieval Archimedes (1300 to 1565): Part iii: The Medieval Archimedes in the Renaissance, 1450–1565 (Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1978), pp. 611–614. See also infra, no. 68. 15 The presentation copy to Pope Sixtus v, lavishly bound and gauffered, is bav, R.i.i.602.
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Venice
Paolo and Aldo Manuzio the Younger 43. Cicero, De philosophia volumen secundum, 1541, ustc 822233 [ed. by Paolo Manuzio]16* 44. Damascene, John, Adversus sanctarum imaginum oppugnatores orationes tres, 1554, ustc 836458 [ed. by Pier Francesco Zini]*17 45. Gregory of Nazianzus and Cyprian, Due orationi et il primo sermone di s. Cecilio Cipriano sopra l’elemosina, 1569, ustc 834190 [ed. by Annibale Caro]*18
Niccolò Bascarini for Melchiorre Sessa 46. Zacharias Scholasticus, Dialogus Ammonius, 1546, ustc 864074 [ed. by Gentian Hervet]*19
Andrea Arrivabene 47. Decretum de iustificatione sacrosancti oecumenici et generalis Concilii Tridentini, 1547, ustc 860902 and 86090320
Gabriele Giolito 48. Politi, Ambrogio Catarino, Interpretatio decreti de iustificatione, 1547, ustc 850166* 49. Il decreto del sacrosanto universale Concilio di Trento, sopra la materia della giustificazione, 1548, ustc 860907 50/A. Augustine et al., Varii sermoni di catholici, et antichi dottori, 1553, ustc 811463 [vol. i, ed. by Galeazzo Florimonte]*
Giunta (Heirs of Lucantonio) 51. Soto, Domingo de, De natura et gratia, 1547, ustc 857097 and 857099 [printed together with Niccolò Bascarini]
16 In the dedication, Manuzio praised Cervini for his inspiring capacity of fulfilling his many duties as cardinal and yet being able to devote himself to the study of philosophy and ancient literature. The first part of this ground-breaking edition of Cicero’s philosophical works was dedicated to Hurtado de Mendoza (ustc 822233). 17 Cervini’s copy is no. D 137 in Piacentini, La biblioteca di Marcello ii. 18 The copy of Girolamo and Guglielmo Sirleto, with manuscript corrections, is now bav, Aldine.ii.88. 19 The cardinal’s copy of the edition, possibly presented by Hervet, is Piacentini, La biblio- teca di Marcello ii, no. B 183. 20 Two different issues. From Venice, Grechetto informed Cervini that the decree had not yet been published on 15 March 1547 (asf, Cervini, vol. 42, f. 73r). Ibid., vol. 55 retains Cervini’s own copy of the edition.
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52. Simplicius of Cilicia, Commentarii in octo Aristotelis Physicae auscultationis li- bros, 1551 ustc 856508 [ed. by Gentian Hervet]21
Brucioli brothers 53. Cabasilas, Nicholas, et al., De divino altaris sacrificio [et alia], 1548, ustc 817337 [ed. by Gentian Hervet]*
Farri brothers 54. Theodoretus of Cyrrhus, Eranistes seu Polymorphus, 1548, ustc 858945 [ed. by Gentian Hervet]*
Ad signum Spei 55. Vega, Andrés de, Tridentini decreti de iustificatione expositio … habes etiam re- sponsionem ad impiam antidotum Calvini in acta Synodi Tridentinae, 1548, ustc 862193* 56. Chrysostom, John, Vere aureae in psalmos homiliae, 1549, ustc 836445 [ed. by Gentian Hervet and included in the first volume of Chrysostom’s opera omnia issued by Ad signum spei between 1548 and 1549]*22 26/A. Lippomano, Luigi, Sanctorum priscorum patrum vitae, 1551–1556, ustc 838220, 838224, 838226–838227, 838230 [vols. i–v]23 57. Nacchianti, Jacopo, Tractatus de episcoporum residentia, 1554, ustc 844082*24
21 Dedicated to Cardinal Tournon, the work was certainly accomplished with Cervini’s tacit consent. Hervet was still a member of the latter’s household and the publication contains at sig. *ivv a few celebratory verses by Gabriele Faerno, another of Cervini’s protégés employed in the Vatican Library. In addition, Cervini’s owned a manuscript of the original Greek text (Cardinali, ‘Il Barberinianus gr. 532’, p. 75 correcting Devreesse, ‘Les manuscripts grecs’, p. 262, no. 52), which may have served as working copy. A record in his library inventory may refer to this edition (Piacentini, La biblioteca di Marcello ii, no. F 25). 22 Cervini’s copy is no. D 280 in Piacentini, La biblioteca di Marcello ii. Cf. also ibid., nos. D 241 and D 251. 23 Cervini sent the first volume of this collection to be bound in 1551 (bav, Vat. lat. 6177, f. 199v and 6178, f. 12r). 24 Cervini’s manuscript presentation copy is bav, Ott. lat. 465 (Fossier, ‘Premières recherches’, p. 438, no. 374). This treatise is connected with the new image of a zealous Catholic prel- ate which Nacchianti wished to convey after his trial for heresy in 1549. Cervini was one of the first to cast doubts on Nacchianti’s belief but might have also played a part in his un- expected absolution under Julius iii. See Wietse de Boer, ‘Nacchianti, Giovanni Battista’ in dbi, lxxvii, 2012, pp. 655–658, esp. p. 657.
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Plinio Pietrasanta 58. Chrysostom, John, In Evangelium Sancti Matthaei brevis enarratio … eiusdem ho- miliae tres postremae in Matthaeum, 1554, ustc 836456 [ed. by Cristofano Serarrighi]25
Girolamo Scoto 59. Euthymius Zigabenus, Orthodoxae fidei dogmatica panoplia, 2 vols., 1555, ustc 828530 [ed. by Pier Francesco Zini]* 50/B. Augustine et al., Seconda parte de’ sermoni, 1564, ustc 811478 [vol. ii, ed. by Galeazzo Florimonte]
Michele Tramezzino 60. Panvinio, Onofrio, Romani pontifices et cardinales, 1557, ustc 846537*26 61. Platina, Bartolomeo, De vitis pontificum Romanorum … usque ad Pium iiii, 1562, ustc 807520 [ed. and augmented by Onofrio Panvinio]*27
Lyon
Sebastian Gryphius 62. Cato and Varro, De re rustica, 1541 ustc 140163 [ed. by Piero Vettori]*
25 The Enarratio, probably a 6th-century assemblage from Chrysostom’s works, was trans- lated by Serarrighi about 1540 and dedicated to Cervini in a manuscript version (Florence, Bibiloteca Medicea Laurenziana, San Marco 687) which probably never reached the dedicatee due to Vettori’s reticence in helping Serarrighi. The 1554 edition was addressed to Della Casa and promoted by Beccadelli. On Serarrighi and his fascina- tion for Cervini, Juan de Valdés and later Calvin, see Enrico Garavelli, ‘Cristofano Serarrighi: nuovi documenti per una biografia’, Bollettino della Società di studi valdesi, 203 (2009), pp. 43–83, including the two dedications mentioned above, and his ‘Ancora su Cristofano Serarrighi e Lodovico Domenichi’, in Salvatore Lo Re and Franco Tomasi (eds.), Varchi e altro Rinascimento: studi offerti a Vanni Bramanti (Manziana: Vecchiarelli, 2013), pp. 395–411. 26 In the dedication to Cardinal Farnese, Cervini is depicted as the main force behind Panvinio’s ‘conversion’ to ecclesiastical history (sig. *iiiv, reported in Ferrary, Onofrio Pan- vinio, pp. 9–10). 27 In the address to the reader at sig. Kkiiv, Panvinio recollected how Cervini persuaded him to shift from Roman history to Church history about 1553.
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Cologne
Melchior von Neuß 63. Pigge, Albert, De libero hominis arbitrio et divina gratia, 1542, ustc 63036328
Peter Quentel 64. Nausea, Friedrich, Catholicus catechismus, 1543, ustc 620665*29
Bologna
Anselmo Giaccarelli 65. Decreta Concilii Tridentini, 1548, ustc 860906 66. Translatio Concilii ex Tridento ad civitatem Bononiae, 1548, ustc 860912 67. Politi, Ambrogio Catarino, De optimis vel ineundi, vel prosequendi concilii rationi- bus, 1549, ustc 85016930
Alessandro Benacci 68. Archimedes, De iis quae vehuntur in aqua, 1565, ustc 810252 [trans. by William of Moerbeke and ed. by Federico Commandino]*31
28 A copy of the work was in Cervini’s library in Montepulciano (Piacentini, La biblioteca di Marcello ii, no. B2); another one was in Rome (ibid., no. D31). bav, R.G.Teol.ii.31 is a copy of Pigge’s Hierarchiae ecclesiasticae assertio (ustc 662680) which was personally in- scribed by the author to Cervini. It may easily be part of the works ‘from Germany’ which Pigge sent to Cervini from Venice on 13 October 1541, asking for a benefice in order to continue to ‘serve the public [scholarly] interest’ (bav, Vat. lat. 6416, f. 57r). Pigge also in- scribed to Cervini a copy of his Ratio componendorum dissidiorum (ustc 689857), which is now BCas, FF(min).i.16 2. 29 Book ii is dedicated to Cervini, while the whole work is inscribed to Paul iii. The first book addresses the cardinals Pole, Parisio and Morone; the third Cardinal Farnese; the fourth Cardinal Marino Grimani; the fifth Girolamo Verallo; the sixth Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, the Benedictine abbots Wolfgang von Grünstein and Gerwin Blarer, as well as Johann viii von Maltitz, bishop of Meißen. See Piacentini, La biblioteca di Marcello ii, no. B20 for Cervini’s copy of this text, either in the first or later editions. 30 See Caravale, Beyond the Inquisition, pp. 176–177 for the correspondence among Cervini, Massarelli and Del Monte on the subject. Cervini’s copy of the booklet is asf, Cervini, vol. 74, with a few manuscript corrections at ff. 4r–5r. For what was probably another copy of this book, see Piacentini, La biblioteca di Marcello ii, no. D123. 31 As he recounted in the preface, Commandino was asked by Cervini to publish this work along with Ptolemy’s Analemmate a few years before 1555: see infra, no. 40.
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Basel
Johann Oporinus 69. Alexander of Aphrodisias, Quaestiones naturales, 1548, ustc 689002 [ed. by Gen- tian Hervet]*32 70. Aristotle, De ortu et interitu, 1553, ustc 612884 [ed. and commented on by Joachim Périon]*
Paris
Nicolas Le Riche 71. Contarini, Gasparo, De elementis, 1548, ustc 149967 [ed. by Jean de Gagny]*
Charlotte Guillard 72. Nectarius of Constantinople and Chrysostom, Λόγοι, 1554, ustc 154242 [ed. by Joachim Périon]*
Sébastien Nivelle 73. Nectarius of Constantinople and Chrysostom, Conciones ad populum septem, 1554, ustc 196799 [ed. by Joachim Périon]*
Martin Le Jeune 74. Palladius of Galatia and Theodoret of Cyrrhus, Lausiaca … historia … et Theodoreti … religiosa historia, 1555, ustc 151852 [ed. by Gentian Hervet]33 75. Hervet, Gentian, Oratio ad concilium, qua suadetur, ne matrimonia, quae contrahuntur a filiis familias sine consensu … habeantur deinceps pro legitimis, 1556, ustc 19801034
32 A record in Cervini’s library inventories is likely to refer to this edition: Piacentini, La biblioteca di Marcello ii, no. F 50. 33 Originally translated in support of Lippomano’s hagiographical enterprise (asf, Cervini, vol. 22, ff. 39r, 41r, 42r, 46r, 55r, 56r, 58r, 59r, 62r, 63r), the two texts were planned to be printed in Rome in February 1552 (ibid., f. 65r). They were published a few months after Cervini’s death, with a dedication to Cardinal Pole. Bernardo Torresani (Bernard Turrisan) promptly republished the text in Paris (ustc 151851). On the textual source for the transla- tion of Palladius, see Lucà, ‘Sirleto e Torres’, p. 548. Sirleto checked and criticised this work by Hervet: Paschini, ‘Guglielmo Sirleto’, pp. 235–244 and Lucà, ‘Guglielmo Sirleto e la Vaticana’, pp. 154–156, 158, 34 A first draft of this treatise on clandestine marriages, dated Rome, 20 January 1552, can be found in asf, Cervini, vol. 29, ff. 295r–304v, with a title added by Cervini himself. See the transcription provided in CT, xiii/1, pp. 145–149.
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Guillaume Morel 76. Balsamon, Theodorus, Canones sanctorum apostolorum, conciliorum generalium et particularium, sanctorum patrum et aliorum veterum theologorum, 1561, ustc 153051 [ed. by Gentian Hervet]
Florence
Bernardo Giunta and Heirs 77. Vettori, Piero, Commentarii in tres libros Aristotelis de arte dicendi, 1548, ustc 863102*35 78. Plato, Λύσις ἢ περὶ φιλίας, 1551, ustc 849838 [ed. by Piero Vettori] 79. Xenophon, Ἀπομνημονευμάτων πρῶτον, 1551, ustc 864002 [ed. by Piero Vettori] 80. Pseudo-Demetrius Phalereus, Περὶ ἑρμηνείας. De elocutione, 1552, ustc 826492 [ed. by Piero Vettori] 81. Aristotle, Πολιτικῶν βιβλία ὀκτώ. De optimo statu Reip. libri octo, 1552, ustc 810936 [ed. by Piero Vettori] 82. Terence, Comoediae, 1565, ustc 858765 [ed. by Gabriele Faerno]36
Lorenzo Torrentino 83. Clement of Alexandria, Τὰ εὐρισκόμενα ἄπαντα ex Bibliotheca Medicea, 1550, ustc 822881 [ed. by Piero Vettori]*37 84. Clement of Alexandria, Omnia quae quidem extant opera, 1551, ustc 823004 [ed. by Gentian Hervet]*38 85. Hervet, Gentian, De Domini in coelos ascensione oratio, 1552, ustc 83569339
35 See Mouren, ‘La lecture assidue’, p. 458. 36 At the end of 1553, Cervini, Sirleto and Francesco Davanzati reported that the work was being printed in Rome with a newly cast Latin type, but Faerno confessed to Vettori that the printers had only produced the Andria and were postponing the task until after Christmas holidays. Eventually, at the start of Pius iv’s reign, Silvio Antoniano and Cardi- nal Borromeo entrusted Vettori and the Giunta of Florence with the publication of Terence and Faerno’s learned annotations. In his dedication, Vettori praised Borromeo as a novel Cicero for contributing to Sirleto’s recent appointment as cardinal (sig. *vir-v). See BL, Add. MS 10266, ff. 28r, 103r, 105r; Add. MS 10274, ff. 71r; Add. MS 10275, ff. 27r–38r, 77r, 235r-v. In late 1553, plans were also made for printing Cornelius Celsus with Vettori’s an- notations (ibid., Add. MS 10275, f. 235r). 37 bav, R.i.i.344 is the copy Maestro Luigi bound “alla greca” for the papal library for 10 giuli (Cardinali, ‘Legature di “Mastro Luigi”, pp. 126, 133, 140 pl. 6). 38 For Cervini’s copy, see Piacentini, La biblioteca di Marcello ii, no. D 392. 39 Cervini was doubtless behind this ephemeral edition, which was remarkably distant from Torrentino’s usual output as ducal printer. One also wonders whether Hervet might have delivered this oration in Florence before Cosimo.
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86. Theodoretus of Cyrrhus, In quatuordecim sancti Pauli Epistolas commentarius, 1552, ustc 858949–858950 [ed. by Gentian Hervet]*40 87. Torres, Francisco, Antapologeticus pro libro suo De residentia pastorum iure divi- no, 1552, ustc 85974141
Vienna
Michael Zimmermann 88. Ketābā d-Ewangeliyōn: Liber Sacrosancti Evangelii [in Syriac], 1555, ustc 607924 [ed. mainly by Johann Albrecht von Widmanstetter and Moses of Mardin]
Naples
Giovanni Maria Simonetta 89. Martirano, Coriolano, Christus patiens, in his Tragoediae viii, 1556, ustc 841239 [ed. by Marzio Martirano]42
40 A folio and an octavo edition were carried out at the same time. Cervini’s copy of the former edition, recorded in his library inventory (Piacentini, La biblioteca di Marcello ii, no. D 12), is currently BCas, DD.iv.46 (Fig. 10), with the distinctive capped accession num- ber in between two dots at the head of the title-page: cf. Mercati, ‘Sulla venuta dei codici del Cervini’, and his Codici latini Pico Grimani Pio, passim and pl. viii/3. Piacentini ‘Marcello Cervini: la Biblioteca Vaticana’, p. 126, fig. 15 and Lucà, ‘Guglielmo Sirleto e la Vaticana’, p. 169, fig. 15 reproduces other examples. 41 In the dedication to Cardinal Salviati, Torres thanked Sirleto for his support (pp. 7–8). It seems that Cervini received a copy of this book and approved of the contents in August 1552 (bav Vat. lat. 6178, f. 4r as well as bav Vat. lat. 6177, ff. 406v–407r). A year earlier, Torres had published his treatise on episcopal residence with other essays which had also been printed by Torrentino, possibly with Cervini’s intermediation (ustc 859740). In Cervini’s library, there were multiple copies of these works: Piacentini, La biblioteca di Marcello ii, nos. D115–116, D119. 42 Christus patiens was the only religious play written by Martirano, taking inspiration from the homonymous drama by Pseudo-Gregory of Nazianzus, which had been published by Blado and Cervini in 1542 (cf. no. 14 in this list). A neat manuscript copy of Martirano’s play can be found in bav, Vat. lat. 3615, elegantly bound and blind-tooled in the mid-sixteenth century. This can be reasonably identified with the record in Cervini’s li- brary inventory (‘Coriolani Martirani tragedia’), which Fossier turned into a collection of tragedies and was consequently unable to retrieve: cf. Fossier, ‘Premières recherches’, p. 400, no. 1434 and p. 438, no. 375. On the close ties among Cervini, Martirano, Seripando and Widmanstetter, see Elena Valeri, ‘Martirano, Coriolano’, in dbi, lxxi, 2008, pp. 341–344.
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Giovanni Giacomo Carlino 90. Seripando, Girolamo, In Divi Pauli epistolas ad Romanos Galatas commentaria, 1601, ustc 4035487*
Antwerp
Christophe Plantin 91. Seripando, Girolamo, Commentarius in Epistolam Pauli ad Galatas: eiusdem ad nonnullas quaestiones ex textu epistolae Catholicae responsiones, 1567, ustc 404511*
Verona
Girolamo Discepolo 92. Panvinio, Onofrio, De primatu Petri et apostolicae sedis potestate, 1589, ustc 846556 [only book i]43
Unpublished Works44 93. Sadoleto, Jacopo, De aedificatione Catholicae ecclesiae, 1539–1541 [lost?]45 94. Massarelli, Angelo, [Short treatises and excerpts of original documentation on the history of the papacy (esp. cardinals, conclaves, territorial jurisdiction)],
43 The whole treatise was dedicated to Cervini in the first manuscript version, completed by 1 November 1553: bav, Vat. lat. 6883 (esp. f. 1r). The posthumous printed edition is dedi- cated to Pius v; here, too, Panvinio recalled Cervini’s encouragements (Panvinio, De pri- matu Petri, sigs. +viiiv-++ir). 44 Pollidori, De vita Marcelli ii commentarius, pp. 76 and 88–89 mentions a few additional manuscript works dedicated to Cervini which I was unable to identify, including: Tracta- tum de venatione by ‘Julius Varrozzinus’, a cleric of Nicastro cathedral; an Italian transla- tion of Vincent of Lérins Commonitorium made by a ‘Nicolaus Benius’; and the rhymes of ‘Nicolaus Phrysius’, allegedly a member of Cervini’s household. 45 Sadoleto sent to Cervini the first book of this unfinished work in 1540, while the two churchmen were both in France; a year later, with an heartfelt letter, he asked for Cervini’s unbiased remarks on his work, parts of which had been submitted to cardinals Laurerio, Contarini, Pole, Fregoso and Bembo, too. See Jacopo Sadoleto, Epistolarum libri sexdecim (Lyon: Sebastian Gryphius, 1550), pp. 896–900 and what was probably an overinterpreta- tion of this passage in Pollidori, De vita Marcelli ii commentarius, p. 89. Another version of Sadoleto’s work was addressed to Cardinal Salviati in 1539 under the title De extructione Catholicae ecclesiae; this was published by Angelo Mai in Spicilegium romanum, ii (Rome: Collegium Urbanum, 1839), pp. 101–178.
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ca. 1540–1557 [bncr, Vitt. Em. 269 and bav, Vat. lat. 12125–12127, formerly asv, Misc., Arm xi, vols. 43–45]46 95. Rorario, Girolamo, Democritus – Atropos, 1540 [bnm, Lat. xiv 47 (=4705)] *47 96. Gori, Giulio, Opusculum de ratione et via computi and other mathematical works, after 1540-before 1555 [Rome, Biblioteca Lancisiana, Lancisi, ms.133 lxxv.1.17]*48 97. Philo of Alexandria, De specialibus legibus – Demosthenes, Pro libertate Rhodien- sium, ca. 1540–1542 [trans. by Francisco Torres; bav, Vat. lat. 6217]* 98. Nausea, Friedrich, Pro Christiana religione conservanda, 1543 [bav, Vat. lat. 6147]* 99. Massarelli, Angelo, De primatu Petri, before 1545? [asv, Misc., Arm. ii, vol. 35]49 100. Sirleto, Guglielmo, Adnotationes [on the New Testament], started in 1546 [bav, Vat. lat. 6132–6144, 6151] 101. Mazzocchi, Lorenzo, Pro certitudine gratiae, October 1546 [bav, Vat. lat. 6209, transcribed in CT, xii, pp. 690–692]* 102. Laynez, Diego; Le Jay, Claude; and Salmerón, Alphonso, Summaria sententiarum theologorum super articulis Lutheranorum de sacramentis, purgatorio, indulgen- tiis, sacrificio missae, 1547 [various manuscripts copies, including those in bav, Ott. lat. 581, 745 and 777 featuring Cervini’s own annotations] 103. Lippomano, Luigi, De matrimonio, 1547* [asf, Cervini, vol. 29, transcribed in CT, xiii/1, pp. 60–72] 104. Seripando, Girolamo, [De forma indulgentiarum], 1547* [asf, Cervini, vol. 42, transcribed in CT, xiii/1, pp. 52–54] 105. Spina, Bartolomeo, De certitudine gratiae, January 1547 [asf, Cervini, vol. 42, transcribed in CT, xii, pp. 725–727]*
46 Contents of these five manuscripts are detailed in CT, i, pp. xcviii–ci. 47 Incorrectly listed as MS xiv 45 in Fossier, p. 443, no. 462. Aidée Scala, Girolamo Rorario: un umanista diplomatico del Cinquecento e i suoi Dialoghi (Florence: Olschki, 2004) demon- strates that this is the final version of two of the unpublished Dialoghi which Rorario had written between 1513 and 1520. See ibid., esp. pp. 51–54, 72–73, 80, 115. Although Scala dat- ed this version between 1540 and 1545, the dedication to Cervini (translated into Italian by Scala at pp. 73 and 80) allows us to pinpoint the production of this manuscript in late 1540, as Cervini is addressed as legatus a latere and Cardinal Santa Croce in Gerusalemme; the acquisition of the title of Santa Croce took place on 5 November, while his legation had officially ended a month earlier. We can thus speculate that Rorario was in search of new allies in the Curia, following the abrupt end of his diplomatic career in the service of Paul iii precisely in 1540, probably due to his illegitimate offspring (Scala, Girolamo Rorario, p. 39). 48 Other unpublished essays by Gori, a member of Cervini’s household, can be found in asf, Cervini, vol. 73. Their present location suggests that they were also addressed to the cardinal. 49 Massarelli’s autograph, in his early handwriting, is to be found at ff. 66r–83v. It is likely to have been written before he was appointed as secretary to the Tridentine council.
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106. Postel, Guillaume, Apologia et postulatio, 1547–1548 [asf, Cervini, vol. 33 and bav, Barb. lat. 834]*50 107. Seripando, Girolamo, De iustitia et liberalitate Christiana, 1547–1555 [bnn, Cod. vii D 13]*51 108. Ferretti, Giovanni Pietro, [Epitome of the ancient councils], 1548–1549 [untraced as yet]52 109. Majorano, Niccolò, Disquisitio de libri Targum Aegydiani auctore, antiquitate, in- terprete latino et utilitate, ca. 1550 [untraced as yet] 110. Anonymous, De materia indulgentiarum brevis narratio, 1552* [asv, Conc. Trid., vol. 78, transcribed in CT, xiii/1, pp. 253–254] 111. Ory, Mathieu, De cultu imaginum, 1552 [asv, Conc. Trid., vol. 7]* 112. Ory, Mathieu, De poenitentia, 1552 [BAV, Vat. lat. 6170]* 113. Da Vercelli, Riccardo, De pluralitate beneficiorum, 1553* [Parma, Biblioteca Pala- tina, MS 997, fasc. 5, transcribed in CT, xiii/1, pp. 183–192] 114. Gregory of Nazianzus, De hominis fabrica, 1553 [trans. by Ambrogio Ferrari; bav, Ott. lat. 776]*53 115. Panvinio, Onofrio, De sacrorum cleri ordinum origine, ca. 1553 [bav, Vat. lat. 6883]54
50 See Cesare Vasoli, ‘L’“Apologia et postulatio ad rev. d. Marcellum car. Sanctae Crucis et Consistorii patres” di Guillaume Postel’, in Fera and Ferraù (eds.), Filologia umanistica, pp. 1801–1819 and Quaranta, Marcello ii, pp. 216–217. 51 The preface is an extensive celebration of Cervini’s ground-breaking, albeit short pontifi- cate. Jedin, Girolamo Seripando, ii, pp. 954–958 dwells on Cervini’s role in this unfinished project which was intended to be a detailed confutation of Luther’s notion of salvation and human will. The parts which Seripando managed to write were edited by Anselm Forster (Münster: Aschendorff, 1969) and translated into Italian by Alfredo Marranzini in his Dibattito Lutero-Seripando su “Giustizia e libertà del Cristiano” (Brescia: Morcelliana, 1981), pp. 127–294. 52 The work was read and approved by Cervini. Although the presses of Torrentino and Cochlaeus were considered for printing this text, nothing came of it. See asf, Cervini, vol. 43, ff. 109r, 128r; vol. 44, f. 14r. This epitome is not included in Ferretti’s numerous manu- script works now gathered in bav, Vat. lat. 5828–5836. 53 This translation of De opificio hominis dedicated to Cervini was discovered by Mercati, Codici latini Pico Grimani Pio, pp. 173–184 and commented on in Philip Levine, ‘Two Early Latin Versions of St. Gregory of Nyssa’s περὶ κατασκευης ἀνθρώπου’, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 63 (1958), pp. 473–492. The manuscript bears an alternative title writ- ten by another early hand: ‘De mundi phisiologia’. An erudite Benedictine monk, Ferrari had published his translation of Origen’s commentary on John in 1551, with a dedication to pope Julius iii (ustc 845450). 54 See Bauer, The Invention, p. 36.
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116. Ferretti, Giovanni Pietro, De Ravennati exarchatu, ca. 1554 [bav, Barb. lat. 2746; Vat. lat. 5441 and 5831]55 117. Majorano, Niccolò, Adnotationes [on the Septuagint], ca. 1554–1559 [untraced as yet] 118. Pigge, Steven, Inscriptionum antiquarum farrago, 1554 [Berlin Staatsbibliothek, Ms. lat. Fol. 61h]* 119. Usodimare, Stefano, Responsio, 1554* [asv, Conc. Trid., vol. 78, transcribed in CT, xiii/1, pp. 259–260] 120. Cervini, Marcello, [Paraphrase of Paul’s Letter to the Romans], first half of 1555 [untraced as yet]56 121. Seripando, Girolamo, Ricordi richiesti da Marcello ii, 1555 [bnn, Cod. San Marti- no 425, transcribed in CT, xiii/1, pp. 315–317] 122. Panvinio, Onofrio, De varia Romani pontifìcis creatione, 1563 [bsb, Clm 147–152]*57
55 In September 1549, Cervini invited Ferretti to bring to Rome all his works and present to Paul iii his study on the Ravenna Exarchate; he had previously helped Ferretti in re- searching this subject by opening the doors of the Vatican Library for him. Ferretti responded enthusiastically, though he took some extra time to revise the work, which was eventually given to Julius iii in the early 1550s. See asf, Cervini, vol. 44, ff. 60r, 71r, 90r as well as the material requested by Cervini (ibid., vol. 41, f. 192bisr), now preserved ibid., vol. 59. A copy of the first version of the treatise, dedicated to Clement vii (1531) and an- notated by Ferretti, is to be found in Cervini’s own papers (ibid., vol. 65, ff. 1v–20v). The dedication copy bound for Julius iii was given by Pius iv to Cardinal Borromeo along with most of Julius’s books and is now manuscript bnb, AF.x.37 (Maria Luisa Grossi Turchetti, ‘San Carlo e la Braidense: di alcuni manoscritti appartenuti a san Carlo Borromeo’, Libri & documenti, 38 (2012), pp. 67–80, at p. 75; see also Fig. 11). 56 Cervini submitted to Sirleto up to four chapters of this ‘mia parafrasi’, omitting any further details. He asked, however, for a careful assessment of the contents, worrying about mis- takes which were likely to pertain to theology (bav, Vat. lat. 6178, ff. 33r, 35r, 39r). The subject of Cervini’s work is revealed by a misplaced letter Sirleto sent him on 9 April 1555 (asf, Cervini, vol. 52, f. 45r): ‘Aspetto con grandissimo desiderio la paraphrasi di Vostra Signoria Reverendissima sopra l’epistola alli Romani, quali spero che m’habbi a dar gran- dissimo aiuto’. As early as 1546, Cervini was said to be writing on the Pauline epistles, as reported by Massarelli in his diary (CT, i, p. 372). It may not be incorrect to link these notes of Cervini with the commentaries on Paul which he had encouraged Seripando to write in Trent in late 1545 (cf. nos. 90–91). 57 In the dedicatory letter, dated 1 May 1563, Panvinio presented this work as a belated com- pletion of the investigation which he had started ten years earlier with Cervini and other scholarly friends (bsb, Clm 147, ff. 2r–3r, quoted in Ferrary, Onofrio Panvinio, p. 14, n. 35).
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123. Collectio Avellana, 1567 [ed. by Onofrio Panvinio; bav, Vat. lat. 4961 and 6206]*58 124. Timaeus of Locri, De anima mundi et natura, 1550 [trans. by Ludovico Nogarola; University of Glasgow Library, Hamilton 132]*59
58 The publication of this collection was hindered by Panvinio’s death in 1568. See the draft- ed title-page and dedication to Cardinal Truchsess in bav, Vat. lat. 6206, ff. 219r and 221r, partially transcribed in Ferrary, Onofrio Panvinio, p. 10; from here, we learn that Cervini had entrusted Panvinio with editing the Collectio Avellana in the early 1550s. Panvinio also praised Cervini’s foresight: following the discovery of the manuscript, the cardinal had immediately understood that the Collectio would be sought after by ‘the students of the Catholic truth’. 59 I am deeply grateful to Sam Kennerley for informing me about this philosophical text while I was in the final stages of proofing. Since Nogarola had previously translated from Greek for Giberti, this manuscript dedicated to Cervini can be seen as an additional piece of evidence linking the cardinal' and Giberti’s projects (cf. n. 11 in Chap. 2.1 and Chap. 7.1).
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Figure 10 BCas, DD.iv.46: Cervini’s copy of Theodoret’s In quatuordecim sancti Pauli epistolas commentaries (Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino, 1552), title-page showing his accession number.
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Figure 11 bnb, AF.x.37: Julius’iii dedication copy of Ferretti’s De Ravennati exarchatu, front cover.
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