a1r Visconti, Gaspare: [Letter addressed to] ‘Nicolaum vicecomitem et coregiam' [i.e. Niccolò da Correggio]. Incipit: ‘[M]omo di Esopo fu derisore non solo . . .’
a2v Visconti, Gaspare: [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Non cum gran studio diligentia et arte | Gli inepti versi mei pulisco et como'; sonnet.
a3r Visconti, Gaspare: Ritmi. ‘Rithimi'. Incipit: ‘[E]ra fugito da le man de amore | Che un tempo mi arse lanima nel pecto'; 246 sonnets and 2 sestine. G. Visconti, Rime, ed. A. Cutolo, Collezione di opere inedite o rare a cura della Commissione per i Testi di Lingua, ns 2 (Bologna, 1952). See P. Bongrani, ‘Le Rime di Gaspare Visconti', in Studi di filologia e di letteratura italiana offerti a Carlo Dionisotti (Milan and Naples, 1973), 137-208. Also Bongrani, ‘La poesia lirica alla corte di Ludovico il Moro', in Milano nell'età di Ludovico il Moro, 2 vols (Milan, 1983), I 215-29.
i2r Visconti, Gaspare: ‘Transito del carnevale'. Incipit: ‘[L]a nocte che segui lhorribil caso | Che spense il carneual vita a gli amanti'; ottava rima.
k2v Dulcinius, Stephanus: ‘Sonetto latino composto . . . in commendatione del opera del splendido caualero et prestante poeta meser Gaspar Vesconte Milanese'. Incipit: ‘Cedro digne lini auree o libelle | Quem totum Venus ambit et Cupido'; 20 lines of verse.
k3r Collatius Novariensis, Petrus Apollonius: ‘In commendatione . . . epigramma'. Incipit: ‘Occupet ignauos ne turpis inertia sensus | Perque(?) suos ducat foeda libido gradus'; 5 elegiac distichs.
k3r Machaneus, Dominicus: [Verse addressed to] Gaspare Visconti. Incipit: ‘Omnia gignit amor valeat qui spernit amorem | Hoc duce Gaspareis gratia carminibus'; 4 elegiac distichs.
k3r Lanterius, Paulus: [Verse addressed to] Gaspare Visconti. Incipit: ‘Viuos in verbis quod spiras Gaspar amores | Et fera quod melicis corda quatis lacrimis'; 6 elegiac distichs.
k3v Pegius, Johannes Antonius: [Verse addressed to] Gaspare Visconti. Incipit: ‘Scribit Amor dictant Charites Venus annuit ipse est | Securus titulis nominibusque liber'; 4 elegiac distichs.
k3v Tantius Corniger, Franciscus: [Verse addressed to] Gaspare Visconti. Incipit: ‘Cum mea vernaret facies lanugine et aetas | Lusibus apta foret miles amoris eram'; 4 elegiac distichs.
k4r Tantius Corniger, Franciscus: [Letter addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘[C]ontentus erat auctor suo libello . . .’
k4r Dulcinius, Stephanus: [Explicit addressed to] Franciscus Tantius Corniger. Incipit: ‘Ne elegantissimi operis lepos . . .’
k4r [Colophon.] It is stated that the edition was printed in 1,000 copies.
Imprint:
Milan: [Antonius Zarotus, not before 26 Feb. 1493]. 4°.
Collation:
a–i8 k4.
References:
Source: Bodleian
ISTC: iv00265500
HCR 16078;
BMC VI 723;
Pr 5834;
Oates 2261; not in Sheppard.
LCN: 14693952
Copies:
V-144(1)
Copy
Binding: Eighteenth-century parchment over pasteboards; with gold-tooled spine and imprint information printed in gold on two rectangular red leather labels; sprinkled blue-edged leaves; marbled pastedowns; green silk bookmark.
Size: 214 × 153 × 19 mm.
Size of leaf: 209 × 145 mm.
Provenance: Maffeo Pinelli (1735-1785); Morelli (1787), IV 2528; sale (1789), lot 3528, sold for £0. 5. 6. according to the Bodleian's annotated catalogue.
Michael Wodhull (1740-1816); on the recto of the front endleaf, a note in his hand dated 18 Feb. 1790, giving provenance: ‘Pinelli Auction'.
Richard Heber (1773-1833); stamp; see Catalogue, 1 (1834), lot 7128.
Sydney Richardson Christie-Miller (1874-1931); sale (London: Sotheby, 1/3 Aug. 1917), lot 1127.
Giuseppe Martini (1870-1944); book-plate (engraving dated 1931): ‘Ex libris Josephi Martini Lucensis'.
Albert Ehrman (1890-1969); armorial book-plate; purchased from William H. Schab and Heinrich Eisemann in 1950 for £120; accession no. ‘R 914'.
Presented in 1978 by John Ehrman.
SHELFMARK: Broxb. 68.52.
