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Letter to Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, circa 1560

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3jm1j
Title: Letter to Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, circa 1560
Name: Pio da Carpi, Rodolfo, 1500-1564 (addressee)
Date: 1560
Collection: Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: Commentaries, Manuscripts, Italian, Manuscripts, Renaissance, manuscripts (documents)
Description: Letter to the Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, a humanist and member of the Roman Inquisition. The author, unknown but perhaps from the Italian town of Como (as he refers to Pliny the Elder as nostro cittadino), provides commentary on Varro's De re rustica, III.5-6, describing Varro's villa and its aviary. The fifth leaf, now missing, probably contained a plan of the aviary, as referred to in the letter. The letter consists of 3 bifolia, with the fifth leaf missing. It is written in 30-31 long lines, in a humanistic cursive script, on paper with a watermark of a circumscribed sailboat, addressed Al reverendissimo et illustrissimo Cardinale de Carpi on the verso of the sixth leaf.
Extent: 1 item (5 leaves) : paper ; 305 x 210 (240 x 155) mm
Language: Italian
Coverage: Early works to 1800
Note: Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative., In Latin.
Relation: The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278, Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3jm1j, Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs358.html
Subject: Varro, Marcus Terentius. Rerum rusticarum libri tres, Agriculture -- Early works to 1800, Agriculture, Latin literature -- Early works to 1800, Latin literature
Physical Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 358
Provenance: Sold by E. K. Schreiber, Spring List 2000 (March 2000), no. 58, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg., Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2010., Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9950010533503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3jm1j/manifest

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