Title supplied by cataloger. According to the letter, the poem is the third canto of a longer poem. Cf. "Fine del terzo canto" (f. 18r). The poem begins "O che dolce gioir, che gran dolcezza, saria d'un huom ch'innamorato vive" and ends "Quando de le Sibille i ricchi fregi, i triomphi gl'honor, la gloria, e i pregi." The frontispiece is a colored drawing showing the three Graces and Mercury introducing the ten Sybils to Jupiter. Written in a calligraphic italic hand in brown ink. Bound in 17th-century vellum. In a tray case, 26 cm. Signatures of C. Bruscoli (dated Florence 1935) and G[iuseppe] Martini. Deposited by Philip Hofer, 1967; bequeathed, 1984.
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