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1. Commedia
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 836
- Image Count:
- 84
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of an Anonymous comedy in five acts in prose, based on various amorous plots, the scene being laid in Florence.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter binding, marbled paper over cardboard and parchment spine. On the spine red leather title label with gold-tooled inscription: “COMMEDI / MANOSCRITT / XVI SECOL”., No decoration., and Script: One hand, writing Humanistica Cursiva. Corrections by a contemporary hand very close to the scribe's hand.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Florence (Italy)--Fiction
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian drama (Comedy), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commedia
2. Commedia ovvero storia del Crocefisso
- Creator:
- Bettini, Michele
- Published / Created:
- [between 1563 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 845
- Image Count:
- 68
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Michele Bettini (Sixteenth century), Commedia ovvero storia del Crocefisso. The unrecorded author was warden of the "Company of the Evangelist" in Rome, which used to stage edifying plays. The present play in verse (the Prologue only is in prose) was performed in1541 and in 1563. It deals with charity.
- Description:
- Binding: Contemporary paper cover, which is too small for the manuscript., Original foliation in Roman numerals. Corners and edges defective; the leaves waterstained., and Script: Copied by one hand in a careful Humanistica Libraria/Formata under Gothic influence.
- Subject (Name):
- Bettini, Michele
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian drama, Italian, Italian drama (Comedy), Italian poetry--16th century, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commedia ovvero storia del Crocefisso
3. Gl'Oltraggi d'amore e di fortuna, Comedia nuova Dell'Acceso Accademico Stordito
- Creator:
- Donzellini, Alessandro
- Published / Created:
- 1572
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 844
- Image Count:
- 218
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Gl'Oltraggi d'amore e di fortuna, a comedy in Italian by Alessandro Donzellini.
- Description:
- Binding: limp parchment binding., Comedy in Italian about the love affairs of various young men and women, with a complicated plot, changes of names, disguises, etc. Donzelli's work was printed in 1585 in Florence by Bartolomeo Sermartelli, but the present version, dated thirteen years earlier and purportedly by an “Afflitto Accademico Stordito” (an Accademia degli Storditi existed in Bologna in the sixteenth century), differs in many respects from the printed text., and Script: copied, probably by one hand, in Humanistica Cursiva in various degrees of rapidity.
- Subject (Name):
- Donzellini, Alessandro
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian drama (Comedy), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gl'Oltraggi d'amore e di fortuna, Comedia nuova Dell'Acceso Accademico Stordito
4. La leale amante
- Creator:
- Succi, Baldassarre
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 871
- Image Count:
- 159
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Baldassarre Succi, La leale amante: Comedia villanescha, con intermedii apparenti.
- Description:
- ff. 76-95 blank, not digitized.
- Subject (Name):
- Succi, Baldassarre
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian drama (Comedy), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > La leale amante