L'epistolario ciceroniano postillato da Agostino Vespucci: Leonardo a Firenze, tra Poliziano e Machiavelli
Résumé
This essay is devoted to the rediscovery of an important edition of Cicero’s Familiar Letters (Bologna, 1477), currently preserved in the Heidelberg University’s Library, which presents a consistent corpus of both interlinear and marginal annotations inscribed by several hands, among whom one, at least, is recognizable in Agostino Vespucci’s, once a student in Poliziano’s school, later known to have served as an assistant to Machiavelli in the Second Chancery of Florence. The book is annotated in three chronological periods: before 1493, under Poliziano’s direct mastery; between 1497 and 1508, with particular intensity in the years 1503-4, at the time of Vespucci’s association with Machiavelli; and in the decade 1520-30, by the hand of its last known possessor, Agostino Nettucci. Such precious incunable, therefore, reveals to be a peculiar witness of the cultural and political scenario of Florence in those years and offers some interesting hints about Leonardo’s life and work at the time of his return to Florence in the first five years of the 16th Century.
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