Discorso della fortuna diviso in due lezzioni. Di Bernardetto Buonromei da S. Miniato al Todesco accademico fiorentino. Lette pubblicamente nell'Accademia di Firenze al consolato, del Magnif. e Gentilissimo M. Giovanni Rondinelli

LECTURES ON DANTE'S INFERNO, CANTO 7, VERSES 67-96

8vo (146x100 mm). 56 pp. Collation: A-C⁸ D⁴. Printer's device on title page. Italic type. Bookplate Filippo Ragagli - Mercatello. On the title page manuscript ownership entry dated 1684 and coat-of-arms of the Ubaldini family from Urbino drawn in brown ink. Some marginal notes in a contemporary hand. Modern boards. Some light foxing, but a good copy.

Rare first edition, dedicated to the Bishop of Arezzo Bernadetto Minerbetti, of these two lectures given in front of the Accademia Fiorentina on the theme of fate, a theme that was particular relevant within the renewal of Dante's studies that took place in the Accademia in that period and to which other lectures were devoted around the same years, like those by L. Bonsi (Cinque lezzioni […] lette da lui publicamente nella Accademia Fiorentina, Florence, 1560), Giovanni Battista Adriani (1564), and B. Baldini (Discorso dell'essenza del fato, e delle forze sue sopra le cose del mondo, e particolarmente sopra l'operazioni de gl'huomini, Florence, 1578). Borromeo, in particular, starts his analyses by quoting Dante's Inferno, canto 7, verses 67-96, from “Maestro mio, diss'io, or mi dì anche:” to “volve sua spera e beata si gode.”.

Little is known about Bernadetto Borromeo, born in San Miniato and lecturer at the Accademia Fiorentina.

Edit 16, CNCE7181; Guarducci, 15.

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