Andreae Dactii Patricii et Academici Florentini Poemata.

Autore: DAZZI, Andrea (1473-1548)

Tipografo: Lorenzo Torrentino

Dati tipografici: Firenze , 1549

Formato: in ottavo

8vo (142x88 mm). 320 pp. Collation: a-u8. 18th-century calf, gilt back, red edges, some light dampstains and browning, short tear in the last leaf not damaging the text, otherwise a very good copy.

RARE FIRST EDITION published by the author's son Giovanni Dazzi and dedicated to Cosimo de' Medici. This is followed by a second dedication addressed by Andrea Dazzi to Pietro Soderini. This collection of poems, mostly epigrams and elegies, not only gives important biographical details on the life of the author, but also shows his friendship with many important figures in Florentine life. Among them: Naldo Naldi, Pietro Crinito, Giovanni Rucellai, Alessio Lapaccini, Jacopo Nardi, Luca Albizzi, Niccolò Ridolfi, Lelio Torelli, Angelo Poliziano, and Michele Marullo Tarcaniota. It was the enmity between the Tarcaniota and Poliziano, who had been Dazzi's mentor, that in the end caused the subsequent break between Poliziano and Dazzi himself. The latter, in a series of very bitter epigrams, attacks Poliziano in his most vulnerable point, that is his immorality, and accuses him of homosexuality (cf. G. Bottiglioni, La lirica latina in Firenze nella seconda metà  del secolo XV, Pisa, 1913, pp. 136-144).

“Parmi ces [Dazzi's] poésies il y en a de fort libres... La plupart sont dans le genre de Catulle et de Martial... Cela n'a point empêché ce recueil d'être réimprimé à Paris, en 1554, avec un privilège du roi” (J. Gay, Bibliographie des ouvrages relatifs à l'amour, aux femmes, au mariage..., Paris, 1894, I, p. 782).

Andrea Dazzi, a native of Florence, attended the faculty of poetic and rhetoric at the Studio there, and had as teachers Angelo Poliziano, Cristoforo Landino, and Marcello Virgilio Adriani. Still very young, he composed a heroic-comic poem, Aeluromyomachia, which is printed at the end of the present volume. Later he studied Greek with Ugolino Verino. In 1502 he was offered the position of lecturer of Greek at the local Studio and later he taught poetic and rhetoric at the University of Pisa. Among his students were Pietro Vettori, Bartolomeo Cavalcanti, and Paolo Mini. Around 1520 a serious eye complaint, which caused his blindness, obliged him to give up public teaching. He retired to his villa near Fiesole, where he composed most of his verses. Notwithstanding he occupied some minor public charges and became one of the first members of the Accademia Fiorentina, when it was refounded in January 1541. He himself held some lectures and became 'censore' of the academy (cf. W. Rudiger, Andreas Dactius aus Florenz, Halle, 1897, passim).

Index Aureliensis, 150.688; Adams, D-164; D. Moreni, Annali della tipografia fiorentina di Lorenzo Torrentino, Florence, 1819, no. XXVI, pp. 78-79.


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