Poetry.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Literary and oral genre rooted in the compressed and cogent imaginative awareness or associations of experiences, ideas, or emotional responses and arranged under an organized criterion of meaning, conscious and unconscious expression, symbolism, formal or informal pattern, sound, and rhythm. The genre encompasses narrative, dramatic, satiric, didactic, erotic, and personal forms. (AAT) All poetry, except ballads, was indexed under this heading in the published catalogues. (NLS) .
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
15th-century manuscript of the 'Filostrato' of Giovanni Boccaccio.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.14
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in Italy containing the 'Filostrato' of Giovanni Boccaccio, a poem on the loves of Troilus and Criseida in 713 stanzas of ottava rima. The manuscript is the work of one scribe, written in an Italian round hand by a Florentine scribe.The work itself is preceded by a paragaph explaining the meaning of the name 'Filostrato', followed by an introductory epistle to 'Phylomena'.The text is written with 4 stanzas to a page. The...
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
Late 15th-century manuscript of 'Il Ninfale fiesolano' by Giovanni Boccaccio.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.13
Scope and Contents
Late 15th-century manuscript produced in Italy containing 'Il Ninfale', or 'The Nymph of Fiesole', of Giovanni Boccaccio, written in ottava rima.The manuscript is the work of one scribe, written in an Italian round hand.Balduino states that the manuscript is incomplete in places and not arranged in the correct order.The work starts on folio 2r and runs to folio 94r.The colophon on folio 94r reads: 'Finito ellibro chiamato ninfale'....
Dates:
Late 15th century.