La croce racquistata: poema heroico
Francesco Bracciolini .... .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Bracciolini
presso Bernardo Giunti, Gio. Battista Ciotti & Compagni, 1614 - 720 pages (first edition of 1611).
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https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Bracciolini .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Bracciolini
This serious heroic poem was followed by a funny work by the same author "Bracciolini, Francesco (1618). Dello scherno degli Dei."
I have to think about this .......
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Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini (1380-59). who worked for Popes, found during the council of Constance the work of Manilius, which used 12 Greek-Roman Olympian gods as rulers of zodiac signs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poggio_Bracciolini
Poggio travelled with the new pope Martin to Milan, where Filippo Maria Visconti just had accused and killed his former wife Beatrice de Tenda, widow of Ficino Cane.
Poggio went then for 5 years to England. Filippo Maria Visconti ordered the production of a card playing deck, in which 12 Olympic gods + 4 other gods were used as trumps (Michelino deck).
Poggio wrote in 1440 a text De infelicitate principum (On the Unhappiness of Princes, 1440). Curiously this is the year, when we hear of the first Trionfi deck (by Giusto Giusti).
Davide Canfora published 1998 "Poggio Bracciolini, De infelicitate principum" on 79 pages.
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Curiously the author Canfora gives a lot of references to work the "Momo" of Gian Battista Alberti, which in 1440 didn't exist, but started to be written and was finished c1446-48).
( the relation between Poggio and Alberti is also discussed here: )
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... _Revisited
In 1611 a Francesco Bracciolini, who worked also for a pope, published a serious heroic poem "La croce racquistata: poema heroico"
The title remembered me on the title Il Malmantile racquistato ... this gave me suspicions ...
I found: Bracciolini, Francesco (1618). "Dello scherno degli Dei." First I discovered a "Dello schemo degli Dei", but this was a typo, as I later discovered.
"Dello schemo degli Dei" would have meant "Of the scheme of the Gods " and this would have interested me.
But it was "Dello scherno degli Dei" and this interested me also and it means "Of the mockery of the Gods". And it was described a funny book, not a serious heroic epos. It immediately remembered me on the "Momo" of Alberti and Momos, the god of mockery.
The name Bracciolini I didn't remember. I knew Poggio with the name Poggio, of course.
https://books.google.de/books/about/Lo_ ... edir_esc=y
Hoppla, the edition of 1618 is called "Lo scherno de' falsi dei" (Of the mockery of false gods). In 1625 it looks like this ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_BraccioliniBracciolini was born of a noble family in Pistoia in 1566. On his removing to Florence he was admitted into the academy there, and devoted himself to literature. At Rome he entered the service of Cardinal Maffeo Barberini, with whom he afterwards went to France. After the death of Clement VIII [in 1605] he returned to his own country; and when his patron Barberini was elected pope, under the name of Urban VIII [in 1623], Bracciolini repaired to Rome and was made secretary to the pope's brother, Cardinal Antonio Marcello Barberini.
see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Clement_VIII
When Lorenzo Lippi started the Malmantile in Innsbruck, it had the name "Novella delle due regine" (Andrea Vitali had this information). This was before 31. August 1646, when Francesco Bracciolini died.
That's a German reaction on the two major works of Francesco Bracciolini. It's short and very negative. According this comment there is not much value in these works.
Geschichte der Poesie und Beredsamkeit seit dem Ende des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts, Teil 2
Bouterwek
J.F. Röwer, 1802
https://books.google.de/books?id=2CMUAA ... ni&f=false
Old versions had 14 chapters ... but there are variants.
This version from 1804 has 20 chapters ...
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This version of 1842 has also 20 chapters and it has some additional material at page 205.
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In the Minchiate Francesi by Poilly in France the figure of Momus appears around c1660. Momus was topic for Alberti c1448 and also for Francesco Bracciolini in 1618 in the chapters 13+14.