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BRUNETTO LATINO, MAESTRO DI DANTE ALIGHIERI:

AN ANALYTIC AND INTERACTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY


 
                                                                                           

 

SECONDARY SOURCES

D. Bibliographies and Reviews of Scholarship
E. General Studies
F. Politics, Rhetoric, Poetics
G. Didactic Allegory, Cosmography, Bestiaries and Encyclopedism
H. Languages and Linguistics
I. Art
  a. Il tesoretto Illuminations
  b. Li Livres dou Tresor Illuminations
  c. Giotto portrait

  d. Inferno XV miniatures
J. Sources
  a. Classical and Patristic Sources

  b. Medieval and Arabic Sources
  c. Theme of Treasure
K. Contemporaries
  a. Federigo II e Alfonso el Sabio
  b. Rustico di Filippo e Palamidesse
  c. Adam de la Halle
  d. Bono Giamboni e Fra Guidotto da Bologna
  e. Taddeo di Alderotto
  f. Il Fiore
  g. Provençal poets
L. Influence
  aI. Guido Cavalcanti
  aII. Francesco da Barberino
  b. Dante Alighieri  I. Vita Nuova, 'Pulzeletta' Sonnet
                           II. De vulgari eloquentia and Convivio
                           III. Inferno XV
                               A. Early Commentaries
                               B. Modern Commentaries
                           IV. Reasons for Dante's punishment of BL in Inferno XV
  c. Medieval and Renaissance
                            I. Italy
                            II. France
                            III. England
                            IV. Spain
  d. Modern
M. Biography and Chronology
N. Doubtful Works
O. Lost Works
P. Recommended Works
Q. Theses/ Dissertations
R. BL on the World Wide Web
S. Library Holdings

D. Bibliographies and Reviews of Scholarship

Da. Bibliographies

The best bibliographical materials are to be found in the prefaces and articles written by editors of BL's works: Zannoni (C.19), Chabaille (C.39), Wiese (C.46, C.55), Maggini (C.57, C.77), Carmody (C.63), Petronio (C.65), Segre (C.70), Pozzi/Contini (C.73). Also in Salvini (BgIII), Bertoni (E), Scherillo (E), Ceva (E), Kay (LbIV), Mattalía, pp. 41-45 (E), Davidsohn (F), Becker (F), Skinner (F), Colish on Cicero (F), Jauss (G), Biagi (LbI), pp. 61-72, Singleton (LbIIIB). Especially important is the bibliography Francesco Mazzoni appends to his article on BL in the Enciclopedia dantesca, III.587-88 (E). See also Mansell, National Union Catalogue, Pre-1965 Imprints, 317; The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies; Modern Language Association Bibliography (the last two are annual publications). Major BL bibliographies are:

Da.1. °Bolton Holloway, Julia. Brunetto Latini: An Analytic Bibliography. London: Grant and Cutler, 1986. Research Bibliographies and Checklists. Eds. A.D. Deyermond, J.R. Little and J.E. Varey.

     Da.1.Rev. Shepard, Laurie A. Speculum 65 (1995), 700-701.

Da.2. °Bolton Holloway, Julia. Updated as Brunetto Latino: An Analytic and Interactive Bibliography, Firenze, 2006. http://www.florin.ms/brunettolatinobibl.html

Da.3. °Brun, Laurent. 'Late Medieval Literature'. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies 66 (2004) 2006, P. 77.

Da.4. °Brun, Laurent. 'Late Medieval Literature'. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies 67 (2005) 2007. P. 78.

Da.5. °Murphy, James J. Medieval Rhetoric: A Select Bibliography. Toronto: University Press, 1971.
Several important entries, especially on Cicero in BL.

Da.6. Neri, Ferdinando. Gli studi franco-italiani nel primo quarto del secolo XX. Roma: Leonardo, 1928. Guide Bibliografiche.
Important entries on BL and also Roman de la Rose in Italian literature, pp. 37-44.

Da.7. Quaglio, Antonio. 'Retorica, prosa e narrativa del Duecento'. In Il Duecento dalle origini a Dante. Bari: Laterza, 1970. La Letteratura italiana, storia e testi. Pp. 407-28, esp. 427-28.
This bibliography is preceded by excellent discussion on BL and other figures associated with him, pp. 257-406.

Da.8. Società Dantesca Italiana. Search 'Brunetto Latini' at http://notes.leonet.it/sdi/bibliografia.nsf/frasetSEARCH

Da.9. °Testa, Emmanuele. 'Bibliografiche essenziali critiche: BL 1220?-1294'. Rivista di Sintesi Letteraria 3 (1938), 79-93.
Excellent bibliography, divided into I. Bibliography, II. Editions, III. Critical Studies on BL's Life and Work, IV. Latini and Dante, Inf. XV.

Da.10. Venturi, Iolanda. 'L'iconografia letteraria di BL'. Studi medievali, 3 ser. 38:2 (1997), 499-
Excellent analytical bibliography on BL, encyclopedism and rhetoric.


Db. Reviews of Scholarship

These are mainly carried out in editions and in other studies, e.g. Chabaille (C.39), Gaiter (C.44), Maggini (C.55), Carmody (C.63), Bolton Holloway (C.85, E), Testa (Da), Ceva (E), Mazzoni (E), Scherillo (E), Sundby (E). Work on Li Livres dou Tresor and consists in the main of editions and of source and influence studies; these cover the scholarship as part of their main argument. For Il tesoro, La rettorica, see section F. For critical reviews of work on Latini and Dante, see Gaspary (LbI.3.Rev), and most items in LbIIIB and LbIV. German scholars have carried on an interesting debate concerning BL's poetry for a century.

         Db1. Marco Berisso. 'Tre annotaziono al "Tesoretto."' Filologia italiana 11 (2014), 15-40.
         Concords with Irene Maffia Scariati's observations on Tesoretto. Ignores Pozzi as editor of text, citing only Contini.

Db.2. Gaspary, Adolfo. Storia della letteratura italiana. Trans. from the German by Nicola Zingarelli. Torino: Loescher, 1887. I, pp. 169,72.
Dislikes BL's erudition in his poetry.

Db.3. °Jauss, Hans Robert. 'The Alterity and Modernity of Medieval Literature'. New Literary History 10 (1979), 173-92, esp. 185-86.
See also G. Argues forcefully for inclusion of BL and Tesoretto in the literary canon. An important modern article, countering the positivist approach of Gaspary and Vossler.

Db.4. °A scuola con Ser Brunetto: Indagini sulla ricezione di Brunetto Latini dal Medioevo al Rinascimento. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Università di Basilea, 8-10 giugno 2006. A cura di Irene Maffia Scariati. Firenze: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo e Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, 2008.
A summit meeting of Brunetto Latini scholars, producing valuable papers and cutting edge research.

    Db.4. °Rev. Giola, Marco. 'Notizie dai convegni: A scuola con ser Brunetto. Indagini sulla ricezione di Brunetto Latini dal medioevo al 
    rinascimento. In der Schule mit ser Brunetto. Untersuchungen zur Rezeption von Brunetto Latini vom Mittelalter bis zur Renaissance. Basle,
    8-10 giugno 2006.'  Testo: Studi di theoria e storia della letteratura e della critica 52 NS 27 (2006), 165-67.

Db.5. Vossler, Karl. Medieval Culture: An Introduction to Dante and His Times. Trans. from the German by William C. Lawton. New York: Ungar, 1958.
Vossler, like Gaspary, despises BL's use of allegory.


E. General Studies

General studies of BL are usually given as prefaces to editions, for instance, Zannoni (B ), Chabaille (B ), Maggini (B ), Carmody (B ), Bolton Holloway (B ). They are also to be found in anthologies containing his work. See also Wieruszowski (C.71), Apollonio (F).

E.1. Barlow, Henry Clark. Critical, Historical and Philosophical Contributions to the Study of the 'DC'. London: Williams & Norgate, 1864.
BL chapter, pp. 423-29. States, p. 424, that Pataffio is not BL's, interprets 'ser Brunetto e suoi' of Filippo Villani's Vita as his family joining him in exile. See N.

E.2. Bartoli, Adolfo. I primi due secoli della letteratura italiana. Milano: Vallardi, 1880.
Discusses Tesoro and Tesoretto, pp. 233-38, relating the second to Francesco da Barberino (LaII, Kf).

E.3. Bartoli, Adolfo. Storia della letteratura italiana. Firenze: Sansoni, 1878-84. 7 vols in 5.
Vol. II on poetry, III on prose; both discuss BL, mainly Tesoretto.

          E.3.Rev. Gaspary, Adolfo. ZRP 4 (1880), 390-91.

E.4. Bettinelli, Saverio. Risorgimento d'Italia negli study, nelle arti e ne' costumi dopo il Mille. A cura di Salvatore Rossi. Ravenna: Longo, 1976.
Eighteenth-century study of Italian literature (originally published 1775). Sees BL as important in Italian letters. Speaks of encyclopedism of Tresor, relationship to Peire de Corbiac, Tezaur. Believes BL wrote Pataffio. Notes that BL was master of Dante and Guido Cavalcanti.

E.5. °Bertoni, Giulio. Il Duecento: Storia letteraria d'Italia. Milano: Vallardi, 1930. 2nd. ed.
Rich bibliography on Tesoretto, pp. 313 ff. Discusses Franco-Italian culture of BL.

E.6. °Bolton Holloway, Julia. Twice-Told Tales: Brunetto Latino and Dante Alighieri. New York: Peter Lang, 1993. xiv + 552 pp. (ISBN 0-8204-1954-0. Obtainable from Aureo Anello Books)
An exhaustive study of documents in archives and manuscripts in libraries concerning BL, relating these to DA and DC.

E.6.Rev.1. °Allaire, Glora. Annali d'italianistica 15 (1997) 369-371.

E.6.Rev.2. °Najemy, John. Sp 76 (1996) 435-37.

E.6.Rev.3. °Modesto, Diana. Parergon (January 1995) 182-85.

E.7. Carducci, Giosuè. 'Intorno alle opere di BL'. Dante. Bologna: Zanichelli, 1936. Edizione nazionale delle opere di Giosuè Carducci, X. Pp. 1-36. Originally published, Primavera, 1865.
General discussion of Il mare amoroso, Favolello, Tesoretto, Rettorica, Fiore. Laments Sorio's death and thus lack of complete Tesoro edition.

*E.8. Carmody, Francis et Françoise Fery-Hue. 'Brunet Latin'. Dictionnaire des lettres françaises: le Moyen Âge. Ed. Geneviève Hasenohr et Michel Zink. Paris: Fayard, 1992. Pp. 213-5. Cited, Laurent Brun.

E.9. Cecchi, Emilio & Natalino Sapegno. Storia della lettertura italiana: 1. Le origini e il Duecento. Milano: Garzanti, 1965.
Pp. 605-15 discuss BL and Bono Giamboni. Mainly on rhetoric in BL. Authors doubt that Bono Giamboni was translator of Tesoro. MSS pages reproduced.

E.10. Ceva, Bianca. BL: l'uomo e l'opera. Milano: Ricciardi, 1956.
Though more recent than Sundby's book, does not supercede it. Inadequate use of primary documentation.

E.10.Rev.1. Sabatini, R. Rassegna della letteratura italiana 69 (1965), 650-51.

E.10.Rev.2. Toja, Gianluigi. ZPR 83 (1967), 453-55.
Both reviews noting awkward bibliography

E.11. °Elio G. Costa. 'BL Between Boethius and Dante: The Tesoretto and the Medieval Allegorical Tradition'. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Toronto, 1974. Microfiches

E.12.  D'Ancona, Alessandro & Orazio Bacci. Manuale della letteratura italiana. Firenze: Barbèra, 1921. Pp. 86-96.
Also discusses Rustico di Filippo, Fra Guidotto, Bono Giamboni, Francesco da Barberino, Pier delle Vigne, Guido Cavalcanti, Fazio degli Uberti, with excerpts of their poetry.

E.13. °De Sanctis, Francesco. History of Italian Literature. Trans. John Redfern. New York: Basic Books, 1931. Rpt. 1959. 2 vols.
I.34, speaks of pride of Florence in BL; p. 47, known today only because Dante mentions him; p. 48, Dante and Guido Cavalcanti his students.

E.14. Dictionary of Italian Literature. Ed. Peter Rondanella & Julia Conaway Bondanella. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979.
Brief biographical entry, pp. 76-77; notes relationship of Tesoretto and Roman de la Rose.

E.15. °Dole, Nathan Haskell. A Teacher of Dante and Other Studies in Italian Literature. New York: Moffatt, Yard, 1908.
A general study of BL in his own right rather than of his influence on DA. A charming work, filled with erudition, that saw so much further than most books written on BL since have done.

E.16. Dizionario enciclopedico della letteratura italiana. Ed. Giuseppe Petroni. Bari: Laterza, 1967.
III.337. Discusses Tesoretto, noting that BL called it Il tesoro. Gives bibliography.

E.17. °Fauriel, Edmond. 'BL, sa vie'. In Histoire littéraire de la France: ouvrage commencé par des religieux bénédictines de la congrégation de Saint-Maur et continué par des membres de l'Institut. Paris: Librairie Universitaire, 1895. XX.276-304.
An excellent general and critical study of BL's life and works. Good bibliography.

E.17a. Maffia Scariati, Irene. Dal "Tresor" al "Tesoretto": Saggi su Brunetto Latini e i suoi franceggiatori. Roma: Aracne, 2010.
Problematic.

E.18. Mattalía, Daniele. 'BL'. In Letteratura italiana: I Minori. Milano: Marzorati, 1961. Orientamenti Culturali. I.27-45.
Notes similarity of figures of Virgil and BL in Inferno. Useful bibliography.

E.19. °Mazzoni, Francesco. 'BL'. Enciclopedia dantesca. Ed. Vincenzo Cappelleti, Pasquale Caloprese, Giuseppe Attilio Lombardo & Franco Lucibelli. Roma: Istituto della Encicplopedia italiana, 1970. III.579-88.

E.20. °Mazzuchelli, Giammaria. Annotazioni alle Vite d'Uomini Illustri Fiorentini di Filippo Villani. Firenze: Magheri, 1826. Pp. 122-131.
Final volume of the Croniche of Giovanni and Filippo Villani. He mentions a Tesoro MS at Cortona. See also his notes to Taddeo d'Alderotto, Francesco da Barberino.

E.21. Mezzopreti, E. 'Della vita e delle opere di BL'. Antologia Contemporanea: Giornale di Science Lettere ed Arte II (1856?), 262-84.
Fundamental to BL studies. Notes Dante, orphaned at 8, under BL's guardianship, citing Leonardo Bruni Aretino.

E.22. °Morbio, C. 'Nuovissimi studi su BL, Dante e Petrarca e sul loro soggiorni in Francia'. In ASI, 3rd ser., 17 (1873), 187-206. Rpt, Firenze, 1912.
A discussion of literary texts rather than of French sojourn, despite title.

E.23. Paris, Gaston. La Littérature française au Moyen Age. Paris: Hachette, 1890. Pp. 160-61.

*E.24. Russo, Luigi. Disegno storico della letteratura italiana. Firenze: Sansoni, 1946. I.49 ff.

E.25. °Scherillo, Michele. Alcuni capitoli della biografia di Dante. Torino: Loescher, 1896. Pp. 116-221.
An excellent early study of BL schlarship. Believes Rettorica ascription incorrect, however.

E.26. Sundby, Thor. Brunetto Latinos levnet og skrifter. Copenhagen: Jacob Lund, 1869.
Includes Icelandic version of Italian rhetorical text. Excellent account of BL's life and work. Testa (Da), p. 85, notes that this study is inspired by Chabaille's edition of Tresor (C.39).

E.27. °Sundby, Thor. Della vita e delle opere di BL. Firenze: Le Monnier, 1884. Trans. from the Danish by Rodolfo Renier, with appendices by Isidoro Del Lungo giving civic Florentine documents mentioning BL and Adolfo Mussafia on MSS of Tesoro.

E.27.Rev.1. Paris, Gaston. R 14 (1885), 313-14.

E.27.Rev.2. Zambrini, Francesco. Prop. n.s. 2:2 (1896), 462-66-
Says such an erudite foreign work makes Italians envious. Likewise reviews Mussafia (BgIII).

E.28. Tiraboschi, Girolamo. Storia della letteratura italiana. Modena: Società Tipografica, 1772-80. Vol. IV.

E.29. Wilkins, Ernest Hatch. A History of Italian Literature. Revised ed. Thomas C. Bergin. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1954; Rpt. 1974. Pp. 32-33, 46, 64.

E.30. Zingarelli, Nicola. La vita, i tempi e le opere di Dante. Milano: Vallardi, 1931. Storia Letteraria d'Italia.
Discusses letter about Tesauro to Pavia (p. 42); sources. pp. 45-47; bibliography, pp. 52-53; theme of treasure, p. 53.


F. Politics, Rhetoric, Poetics

BL believed that writing was both a political and an ethical practice; that politics, ethics and poetics were to be combined for the good of the comune, of the city, and he so combined them in his own profession for his city, his comune, of Florence, in so doing deeply influencing his colleagues and his students. See Bolton Holloway (C.85), and Twice-Told Tales (E). BL's separate Rettorica is mainly a translation of Cicero's De inventione. His Tresor and Tesoro discuss education, including rhetoric in terms of the citizen's responsibility, and then in third, final, discuss rhetoric, giving a translation of Cicero, followed by an account of how the podestà should carry out his governmental office with justice and witout corruption. The second part of the Tresor gives a translation of Aristotle's Ethics, followed by sayings of different philosophers concerning vice and virtue. Florence had no recognized university until 1349, and Arras had none. The evidence from BL MSS is that 'Maestro' BL was teaching in the setting of his notarial chambers in Arras and in the Chancery in Florence, using standard university material, Aristotle, Cicero, Ptolemy, Alfraganus, and applying these texts to the reality of government and politics in his day.

This section includes not only discussions of medieval rhetoric (see also A on MSS & B sections on editions of BL's Rettorica, Orazioni and Sommetta) but also accounts of Florentine history in BL's day, both primary and secondary, for that history was highly political. There are few references to poetics outside the accounts of rhetoric, although it is interesting that in Tesoretto (lines 411-26), BL says that he has to file his verses as if with a whetstone to adjust form to meaning; this derives from an arabo-classical topos. A useful book for understanding BL and his half-told tale, Tesoretto, is Frank Kermode, The Sense of an Ending, New York, Oxford University Press, 1967.

A glance at the manuscripts of Tesoretto (Ba) will show that several are to be found in collections of rhetorical writings. Gaiter (C.44), p. xliii, noted an Italian Tesoro MS at Verona bound with L'Etica di Aristotile volgarizzata of BL and the Fiore di Rettoric di M. Tullio of Guidotto da Bologna. However, I failed to find it there. Some of the Spanish manuscripts also reflect this combination. James R. East has translated 'Book Three of BL's Tresor . . . Its Contribution to Rhetorical Theory', for his 1960 Ph.D. dissertation (C.72). De Robertis' book on Dante's VN (LbI) is a splendid discussion of Ciceronian rhetoric in BL and DA. On p. 90 he mentions Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale II.IV.73, Rettorica MS (Bc.2). See also Marigo (G). Cesare Segre (BgIV) has an important discussion of BL, pp. 131-32, noting that his Rettorica precedes Jean d'Antioch's of 1282. See above all Wieruszowski (C.71, on F2, Tesoro with Sommetta, BbII.19), pp. 186-89, with sections Bd, Epistolarium, Be, Sommetta, on BL's letters. Giles Constable's volume on Letters and Letter Collections, Typologie des Sources du Moyen Age Occidental 17, Turnholt, Brepols, 1976, can be of use.

On the historical materials it may be of value to look at Donald E. Queller, The Office of the Ambassador in the Middle Ages, Princeton, University Press, 1967, though he nowhere mentions BL, who was Florence's Ambassador to Alfonso el Sabio in 1260. Likewise Nicola Ottokar, Il Comune di Firenze al fine del Dugento, Firenze: Vallechi, 1926, fails to mention BL. Of value, though also not mentioining BL, is Niccolò Machiavelli, History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy from the Earliest Times to the Death of Lorenzo the Magnificent (trans. Felix Gilbert, New York, Harper, 1960). Machiavelli writes in the tradition of Florentine historiography which was shaped by Livy, Sallust and BL. BL's work centres on his concern for the comune and its freedom, within a Ciceronian and Aristotelian context, inspired in turn by Athenian democracy and Roman republicanism. Machiavelli, Coluccio Salutati and BL were all members of the Florentine Chancery. BL, in his writings, often discusses the office of the ambassador.

For further works related to this area, see section M and also the relationship between BL and DA as master and student in the Chancery context (Lb). Isidoro Del Lungo's appendix to Sundby (E.27), 'Alla biografia di ser BL, contribuito di documenti', pp. 199-27, is useful for state documents mentioning BL. Carroll (LbIIIB), quoting Toynbee, p. 33, quoting Del Lungo, notes that BL's name appeared in 35 public documents between 21 October 1282 and 22 July 1292. Actually, he appears in the documents for this period, 42 times (E.6). Dante refers to BL in VE, speaking of him as 'Brunectum Florentinum'. Segre (BgIV), p. 22, notes his importance to 'letteratura cancellerseca'. It is important, too, to look at items in Ja on Aristotle and Cicero and the dissertation by J. Thomas (H) on BL's Ciceronian orations. See also Hans Robert Jauss (G).

BL may have been influenced by Alfonso el Sabio's use of Eusebian historical parallels. DA and G. Villani, like Bede and Geoffrey of Monmouth, were to continue this practice. BL was twice exposed to its method, in Spain from Alfonso, in France from Vincent de Beauvais. He wrote such universal history in the first part of the Tresor and, perhaps, elsewhere (N), and DA associates him with the Troy/Fiesole origins of Florence in Inf. XV. See Davis (F), and primary materials in Ja,b.


F.1. Alessio, Gian Carlo. 'Brunetto Latini e Cicerone (e i dettatori)'. IMU 22 (1979), 123-69.
Pinpoints BL's use of Cicero with medieval commentary in Rettorica and Tresor. Learned, detailed article. Good on MSS study. See Ja.

F.2. Allen, Judson Boyce. The Ethical Poetic of the Middle Ages. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982.

F.3. Amari, Michele. La guerra del Vespro siciliano. Paris: Baudry, 1845.

F.4. Ammirato, Scipione. Vescovi di Fiesole, di Volterra et d'Arezzo. Firenze, 1637.

F.5. Annales Ptolemai Lucensis. In Cronache dei secoli XIII e XIV. Firenze: Cellini, 1876.

F.6. Apollonio, Mario. Uomini e forme nella cultura italiana delle origini. Firenze: Sansoni, 1934. PP. 214-19.
Places BL in context of ars dictaminis. Discusses Tesoretto.

F.7. Arias, Gino. 'Sottomissione dei banchieri fiorentine alla Chiesa, 9 dic. 1263'. Studi e Documenti di storia del Diritto. Firenze: Le Monnier, 1901. Pp. 114-120.

F.8. Arias, Gino. I trattati commerciali della Repubblica fiorentina: Secolo XIII. Firenze: Le Monnier, 1901.

F.9. °Artifoni, Enrico. 'Boncompagno da Signa, i maestri di retorica e le città comunali nella prima metà del Duecento'.  Il pensiero e l’opera di Boncompagno da Signa. A cura di Massimo Baldini. Signa: Allegri, 2002. Pp. 23-36.

F.10. °Artifoni, Enrico. 'L'eloquence politique dans les cités communales'. Cultures italiennes (XIIe-XVe siècles). A cura di Isabelle Heullant-Donat. Paris: Cerf, 2000. Pp. 269-296, esp. 271.

F.10a. °Artifoni, Enrico. 'I governi di "popolo" e le istituzioni comunali nella seconda meta del secolo XIII'. Rivista: Reti Medievali IX (2003), 1-10.  

F.11. °Artifoni, Enrico. 'Orfeo Concionatore. Un passo di Tommaso d'Aquino e l'eloquenza politica nelle città italiane nel secolo XIII'. La musica nel pensiero medievale. A cura di Letterio Mauro. Ravenna: Longo, 2001. Pp. 137-149.

F.12. °Artifoni, Enrico. 'I podestà professionali e la fondazione retorica delle politica comunale'. Quarderni storici n.s. 63 (1986), 3.687-719.

*F.13. Artifoni, Enrico. 'Prudenza del consiglio. L'educazione del cittadino nel Liber consolationis et consilii di Albertano da Brescia (1246)'. "Consilium". Teorie e pratioche del consigliare nella cultura medievale. Ed. C. Casagrande, C. Crisciani, S. Vecchio. Firenze: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo (Micrologus Library 10), 2004, 1-14.

F.14. °Artifoni, Enrico. 'Retorica e organizzazione del linguaggio politico nel Duecento italiano'. Le forme della propaganda politica nel due e nel trecento: Relazione tenute al convegno internazionale oraganizzato dal Comitato di studi storici di Trieste, dall'Ecole française de Rome e dal Dipartimento di storia dell'Università degli studi di Trieste (Trieste, 2-5 marzo 1993). A cura di Paolo Cammarosano. Roma: Ecole française de Rome, Palais Farnèse, 1994. Pp. 157-182.

F.15. °Artifoni, Enrico. 'Sapientia Salomonis: Une forme de présentation du savoir rhétorique chez les dictatores italiens (première moitié du XIIIe siècle). La Parole du prédicateur, Ve-XVe siècle. Ed. Rosa Maria Dessì et Michel Lauwers. Nice: Collections du Centre d'Etudes Médiévales de Nice, 1997. I.291-310.

F.16. °Artifoni, Enrico. 'Segreti a amicizie nell'educazione  civile dell'età dei comuni'. Micrologus: Natura, Scienze e Società Medievali 14 (2006), 259-274.

F.17. °Artifoni, Enrico. 'Sull'eloquenza politica nel Duecento italiano'. Quaderni medievali 35 (1993), 57-78.

F.18. °Artifoni, Enrico. 'Gli uomini dell'assemblea. L'oratoria civile, i concionatori e i predicatori nella società comunale'. La predicazione dei Frati dalla metà del '200 alla fine del '300. Atti del XXII Convegno internazionale, Assisi, 13-15 ottobre 1994. Spoleto: Centro italiano di studi sull'Alto Medioevo, 1995. Pp. 143-188.

F.19. °Asperti, Stefano. Carlo I d'Angiò e i trovatori: Componenti 'provenzali' e angioine nella tradizione manoscritta della lirica trobadorica. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 1995.
In this period poetry and literature, both Provençal and Picardan, takes on a strongly political role. BL part of this circle and his MSS often include Provençal lyrics.

F.20. Baldassari, Guido. 'Ancora sulle fonti della Rettorica: BL e Teodorico di Chartres'. SPCT 19 (1979), 41-69.
Notes Theodoric of Chartres' commentary to Cicero's De inventione as source for Rettorica. See Ja.

F.21. Baldassari, Guido. '"Prologo" e "Accessus ad autores" nella Rettorica di BL'. SPCT 12 (1976), 102-16.
Discusses late classical and medieval context of BL's interpretation of Cicero, noting sources in commentaries by Victorinus and Gellus. See Ja; also
Bibliotheca Augustana: http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost04/Victorinus/vic_intr.html

F.22. Baldwin, Charles. Medieval Rhetoric and Poetic. New York: Macmillan, 1928. Pp. 178-82.

F.23. Barbero, Alessandro. 'Il mito angioino nella cultura italiana e provenzale fra Duecento e Trecento'. Bulletino storico-bibliografico subalpino 1 (1981).
Detailed study, concerning poetic tenzoni, diplomatic documents, etc.

F.24. Baron, Hans. 'Cicero and the Roman Civic Spirit in the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance'. Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 22 (1938), 72-97. Rpbl. as 'The Memory of Cicero's Roman Civic Spirit in the Medieval Centuries and in the Florentine Renaissance'. In Search of Florentine Civic Humanism: Essays on the Transition from Medieval to Modern Thought. Princeton: University Press, 1988. 2 vols. I.94-133.

*F.25. Baroni, Giovanni. 'Dante giudica quarant'anni di vita politica fiorentina ("Inferno" canto XVI)'. Atti della Dante Alighieri a Treviso 1989-1996. II.32-42.

F.26. Bartolomeus de Neocastro. Historia Sicula. In Rerum Italicum Scriptores, a cura di Ludovico Antonio Muratori. Milano: 1728. Vol. III.

F.27. Bartuschat, Johannes. 'La "Rettorica" de Brunetto Latini. rhétorique, éthique et politique à Florence dans le deuxième moitié du XIII siècle'. Arzanà: La science du bien dire. Rhétorique et rhétoriciens au Moyen Âge. Ed. Marina Marietti et Claude Perrus. 2002. Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2002. Pp. 33-59.
Excellent article, discussing Ciceronian rhetoric in BL and DA for ethics, not power

F.28. Bec, Christian. Les marchands écrivains à Florence, 1375-1434. Paris: Mouton, 1967.

F.29. °Becker, Marvin B. 'Dante and his Literary Contemporaries as Political Men'. Speculum 41 (1966), 665-80.
Sees BL and DA as participating in a literary and political education.

F.30. °Becker, Marvin B. 'Notes from the Florentine Archives: Persus Ser Brunetto Latini'. Renaissance News 17 (1964), 201-202.

F.31. Boccaccio, Giovanni. Lo Zibaldone. A cura di Guido Biagi. Firenze: Olschki, 1915.
Gives Cicero's Catilinaria, Frederick II/Pier delle Vigne, Dante Epistles, 'Alexandro Magno scribit Aristotili magistro suo De mirabilis Indiae'. MS palimpsested on Beneventan music MS.

F.32. °Bolton Holloway, Julia. 'Chancery and Comedy: BL and DA', Lectura Dantis, 3 (1988) 73-94, http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/LD/numbers/03/holloway.html,
Proposes need to study BL's diplomatic documents side by side with DA's DC, in particular the Inferno.

         F.32.Rev. Hardie, Colin. Detailed letter, dated 22/11/87.

*F.33. Bonaini, Francesco. 'Statuto della Val d'Ambra del mccviij del Conte Guido Guerra III e Ordinamenti per fedeli di Vallombrosa degli anni mccliij e mcclxiij degli Abati Tesauro di Beccaria e Pievano'. Annali della Università toscane, 2 (1851).
Cited, Roberta Cella,
A scuola con Ser Brunetto, ed. Maffia Scariati (Db.4).

*F.34. Boncompagno da Signa. Amicitia. A cura di Sarina Nathan. Roma: Società, 1909.
Cited, Ceva (E), p. 222.
See Bibliotheca Augustana: http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost13/Boncompagno/bon_intr.html

F.35. Boncompagno da Signa. Rhetorica novissima. A cura di A. Gaudentio. Bologna: Biblioteca Juridica Medii Aevi, 1892.
The entire collection is of value for its publication of works composed in a chancery context. See
Bibliotheca Augustana,  http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost13/Boncompagno/bon_intr.html     

F.162. Regestum Pontificum Romanorum. Ed. Augustus Potthast. Berlin: Becker, 1875.

F.36. Bowers, Richard H. 'Italian Merchants in England in the Reign of Henry III.' The Southern Quarterly 6, 2 (1968), pp. 191-202.

F.37. Brandt, William J. The Shape of Medieval History: Studies in Modes of Perception. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966.

F.38. Bruni Aretino, Leonardo. Historiarum Fiorentini Populi. A cura di Emilio Santini. In Lodovico Antonio Muratori, Rerum Italicum Scriptores, XIX, 3. Città di Castello: Lapi.

F.39. °Buch, August. 'Gli studi sulla poetica e sulla retorica di Dante e del suo tempo'. CeS 13-14 (1965), 143-66. Also in Atti del Congresso internazionale di Studi danteschi, Firenze, 1965, pp. 98-101.
Excellent bibliography in footnotes on rhetoric. Concludes that BL, Rettorica, and Fra' Guido da Bologna, Fiore di Rettorica, are contemporaneous works.

F.40. Buch, August, Max Pfister. Studien zu den 'Volgarizzamenti' Römischer Autoren in der Italienischen Literatur des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts. München: Fink, 1978.

*F.41. Cabie, Marie Pierre. 'Sapience et rhétorique dans le livre de Brunet Latini'. Perspectives médiévales, 8 (1984).
Cited, Kay (LbIV).

F.42. Caggese, Romolo. Roberto d'Angiò e i suoi tempi. Firenze: Bemporad, 1922.

F.43. Il Caleffio vecchio del Comune di Siena. A cura di Giovanni Cecchini. Firenze: Olschki, 1931-35. BL document, #567, p. 779.
See also La sale della Mostra e il Museo delle Tavolette dipinte, catalogue: Pubblicazione degli Archivi di Stato XXIII, Roma: Ministero dell'Interno, 1956, giving actual documents concerning Sapia, Casella, Pier delle Vigne, other Commedia characters.

F.44. Calò, Giovanni. Filippo Villani e il 'Liber de Origine Civitatis Florentinae'. Rocca S. Casciano: Capelli, 1904. P. 47.

F.45. °Campbell, C Jean. The Commonwealth of Nature: Art and Poetic Community in the Age of Dante. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008.
Intensely studies Brunetto Latino Tesoretto and Tesoro manuscript illuminations and texts, in the light of ideal Comunal Politics.

F.46. Carini, Isidoro. Gli archivi e le biblioteche di Spagna in rapporto alla storia d'Italia in generale e di Sicilia in particolare. Palermo: Statuto, 1884.

*F.47 . Carpi, U. La nobiltà di Dante. Firenze: Polistampa, 2004. 2 vols.

F.48. Cassell, Anthony J. 'Pier della Vigna's Metamorphosis: Iconography and History'. Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio: Studies in the Italian Trecento in Honor of Charles S. Singleton. Ed. Aldo S. Bernardo and Anthony L. Pellegrini. Binghamton: New York; Medieval and Renaissance Tests and Studies, 1983.

F.49. Chronicle of Matthew Paris. Ed. Richard Vaughan. Gloucester: St Martin's Press, 1984.

F.50. Codici diplomatico dei Giudei di Sicilia. A cura di Bartolomeo e Giuseppe Lagumia. Palmero: Michele Amenta, 1884.

F.51. Colish, Marcia L. The Mirror of Language: A Study in the Medieval Theory of Knowledge. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968. 2nd ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983.
Sees value and influence of Tresor (BL's other works not discussed). Good on rhetoric and city, BL as teacher to Dante. Excelent bibliography on Cicero.

F.52. XI Congresso di storia della Corona d'Aragona, Palermo-Trapani-Erice, 23-30 aprile 1982 sul tema La società mediterranea all'epoca del Vespro. Palermo: Accademia di Scienze, lettere e arti, 1983. 4 vols.

F.53. Constable, Giles. Letters and Letter Collections, Typologie des Sources du Moyen Age Occidental 17. Turnholt: Brepols, 1976.

F.54. Coppo Stefani, Marchionne di. Istoria Fiorentine: Monumenti. In Ildefonso di San Luigi. Delizie degli Eruditi. Firenze: Cambiagi, 1777.

F.55. Crespo, Roberto. 'BL e la Poetria nova di Geoffroi de Vinsauf'. LIt 24 (1972), 97-99.
Simile of house-building first thought, then wrought, in Geoffrey de Vinsauf, Rettorica, Tresor.

F.56. Cristofori, Francesco. Di 'Quel di Beccheria di cui segò Fiorenza la gorgiera' ricordato dall'Alighieri nel XXXII canto dell'Inferno. Memorie e documenti. Roma: Tipografia liturgica editrice romana, 1890.
Extracted from Arcadia 1, fasc. 3-9. Defends Tesauro de Beccaria against Dante's calumny. Good account of 'Paper Wars' between Pavia and Florence.

F.57. Davidsohn, Robert. Geschichte von Florenz. Berlin: Mittler, 1896-1927. 4 vols.

F.58. Davidsohn, Robert. Forschungen sur älteren Geschichte von Florenz. Berlin: Mittler, 1908.
Above book's separately titled appendix. BL, p. 103 and index; p. 131 on Tesauro de Beccaria; p. 149, Alfonso el Sabio. Notes F. Donati (F50), p. 230; father's letter about BL exile at Montaperti disaster.

F.58.Rev. Maggini, F. BSDI, n.s. 17 (1910), 120-30.

F.59. °Davidsohn, Robert. Storia di Firenze. Trans. Giovanni Battista Klein. Firenze: Sansoni, 1957. 8 vols.
Translation, lacking Forschungen. Photographic plates of BL portraits, etc. Many references to BL documents in archives. With G. Villani, Cronica (F), absolutely essential for documenting BL and DA with primary sources in their historical context.

F.60. Davis, Charles Till. Dante and the Idea of Rome. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957. Pp. 86-94.

F.61. Davis, Charles Till. 'Education in Dante's Florence'. Sp 40 (1965), 415-35.
Excellent on the works BL shared with DA, including Boethius, at that time not well known in Italy. Comments, p. 415, that literacy in this period became extraordinarily widespread.

F.62. Davis, Charles Till. 'Il buon tempo antico'. Florentine Studies: Politics and Society in Renaissance Florence. Ed. Nicolai Rubinstein. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1968. Pp. 45-69.

F.63. Del Giudice, Giuseppe. Codici Diplomatico del regno di Carlo I e II d'Angiò dal 265 al 1309. Napoli: Tipografia dell'Università. 1863-1902.

F.64. De Rosa, Daniela. Coluccio Salutati: Il Cancelliere e il pensatore politico. Firenze: La Nuova Italia, 1980.

*F.65. Dickey, M. 'Some Commentaries on Cicero's Inventione and the Rhetorica ad Herennium of the 11th and 12th Centuries'. Medieval and Renaissance Studies 6 (1968), 1-4.
Cited, Venturi (Da).

         F.65.MS.1. Dickey, Venturi, cite *MS Oxford, Bodleian Library Canon. Class. Lat. 201.

F.66. °Dino Compagni. Dino Compagni e la sua Cronica. A cura di Isidoro Del Lungo. Firenze: Le Monnier, 1889/1924.

F.67. I Diplomi della Cattedral di Messina. A cura di Antonino Amico. Palmero: Michele Amenta, 1888.

F.68. Documenti dell'Antica Costituzione del Comune di Firenze. A cura di Pietro Santini. Firenze: Olschki, 1952.

F.69. Documenti delle relazioni tra Carlo I d'Angiò e la Toscana. A cura di Sergio Terlizzi. Firenze: Olschki, 1950.

F.70. Documenti per la storia della città d'Arezzo nel Medio Evo. A cura di Ubaldo Pasqui. Firenze: R. Deputazione di storia patria, 1920.

F.71. °Donati, F. 'Lettere politiche del secolo XIII sulla guerra del 1260 fra Siena e Firenze'. Bulletino Senese di Storia Patria 3 (1896), 222-69; 4 (1897), 101-06; 5 (1898), 257-69.
Gives letter supposedly from BL's father, exiled to Lucca, to BL in Spain lamenting outcome of Montaperti. Tesoretto has BL learn of Montaperti on his return from a Bolognan scholar at Roncesvalles. Bonaccorso Latino, BL's brother, was a student at Bologna.

F.72. Dorini, U. 'Il tradimento del Conte Ugolino alla luce di un documento inedito'. StD 12 (1927), 31-64.
Discusses Ugolino episode historically and gives a letter of state concerning it, without relating these materials to BL. But see G. Villani (F), Davidsohn (F), Bolton Holloway (C.85, p. xvii; E).

F.73. *Dorini, U. Notizie storiche sull'Università di parte guelfa. Firenze: Franceschini, 1902.
Cited, Ceva (E), p. 223.

F.74. °D'Ovidio, Francesco. 'Guido da Montefeltro nella Divina Commedia'. Nuova Antologia (1892), 210-243, esp. 233.

F.75. Due cronache del Vespro siciliano del secolo XIII. A cura di Enrico Sicardi. In Raccolta degli storici italiani. A cura di Ludovico Antonio Muratori. Bologna: Zanichelli, 1917.

*F.76. Durrieu, Paul. 'Un portrait de Charles I d'Anjou'. Les Archives Angevines de Naples: Etude sur les registres du Charles Ier. Paris, 1896. 2 vols.
Cited, Davidsohn II.779.

F.77. East, James Robert. 'BL's Rhetoric of Letter Writing'. Quarterly Journal of Speech 54 (1968), 241-46.
Discusses BL's adaptation of Ciceronian rhetoric to both speech and letter writing. See B61 for East's dissertation on rhetoric in Tresor III.

F.78. °Epistolario di Leonardo Bruni: Censimento dei codici: Firenze: Seminario di Studio, 30 ottobre, 1987. A cura di Paolo Viti, Lucia Gualdo Rosa, Paola Scarcia Piacentini, Milagros Villae, Frank Rutger Hausmann, Ursula Jaitner Hahner, Martin Davis, James Hankins, Giovanna Lazzi, Claudio Griggio, Sebastiano Gentile. Firenze: Banca Commerciale Italiana, 1987.

F.79. °I fatti dei Romani: Saggio di edizione critica di un volgarizzamento fiorentino del Duecento. A cura di Sergio Marroni. Roma: Viella, 2004.
Paul Mayer suggested BL translated these works (AbI ). The Riccardian MS Marroni discusses is dated '1313', while he notes the French versions are 1213-1214. Cited, Divizia.

F.80. Fenzi, Enrico. 'Brunetto Latini, ovvero il fondamento politico dell'arte della parola e il potere dell'intellettuale'. A scuola con Ser Brunetto, ed. Maffia Scariati (Db.4), 323-369.
Concentrates on Spanish/Arabic influence, but also discusses civic rhetoric.

F.81. Ferrato, Pietro. Trattato sopra l'Ufficio del Podestà scrittura inedita del buon secolo. Padova: Seminario, 1865.

F.82. Ferretti, Giovanni. 'Banchieri fiorentini in Francia nel Dugento'. Fanfulle della Domenica 31-32 (1909).

F.83. Ficker, Julius. Forschungen zur Reichs-und Rechstgeschichte Italiens. Innsbruck: Wagner'schen, 1973.

F.84. Folena, Gianfranco. '"Parlemente" podestarile di Giovanni da Viterbo'. LN 20 (1959), 97-105.
Politics and rhetoric in reference to BL, p. 99.

F.85. Franchini, Vittorio. Saggio di ricerche su l'istituto del podestà nei comuni medievali. Bologna: Zanichelli, 1912.
Discusses BL, pp. 256-62. Much material on Florence, the anziani, the rettore, etc. Oculus pastoralis, p. 234; also Liber de regimine civitatum of Giovanni da Viterbo.

F.86. Fumi, Luigi. Codici diplomatici della città d'Orvieto: Documenti e regesti dal secolo XI al XV. Firenze: Vieusseux, 1884.

F.87. °Gabrielli, Annibale. 'L'epistole di Cola di Rienzo e l'epistolografia medievale'. Archivio Reale Società Romana di Storia Patria 11 (1888), 381-479.
Examines Epistolarium in light of medieval traditon of school of Orléans and of Boncompagno, without mentioning BL.

F.88. Geanakoplos, Demo John. The Emperor Michael and the West. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1959.

*F.89. Gebauer, G.Ch. Leben und denkwürdige Thaten Herrn Richards eruvahlten Römischen Kaysers, Grafens von Cornwall und Poitou in dreyen Buchern beschriben. Leipzig: Fritsch, 1744. Pp. 571-5.
On BL letter about execution of Tesauro Beccaria.

F.90. Gherardi, Alessandro. Le Consulte della Repubblica Fiorentina dall'anno MCCLXXX al MCCXCVIII. Firenze: Sansoni, 1898. Edition of the Libri Fabarum in the Florentine State Archives.

*F.91. Giansante, M. Retorica e politica nel Duecento. I notai bolognesi e l'ideologia comunale. Roma: Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo (Nuovi Studi Storici 48), 1999.

F.92. Giovanni da Viterbo. Liber de regimine civitatum. A cura di Gaetano Salvemini. Bologna: Biblioteca Juridica Medii Aevi, 1901.
Source for podestà section in Tresor and Tesoro.

F.93. °Godbarge, Clément. 'Brunetto Latini y la reconstruccion del ethos republicano. Foro Interno 5 (2005), 85-111.
Discusses BL's formation of Florentine civiltà through his translations of Aristotle and Cicero. Available as a pdf file:
http://www.ucm.es/BUCM/revistas/cps/15784576/articulos/FOIN0505110085A.PDF

F.94. Graf, Arturo. Roma nella memoria e nelle immaginazione del Medio Evo. Torino: Chiantore, 1923.
Intriguing study of mythical and historical materials, noting, p. 497, how Christian poets, BL, DA, Fazio degli Uberti, used unbaptized pagan figures in their poems as guides who will teach them, 'ammaestreranno', though not themselves baptized. For this theme in Dante, see Rachel Jacoff.

F.95. Greenstein, Jack M. 'The Vision of Peace: Meaning and Representation in Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Sala della Pace Cityscapes'. Art History 2 (1988), 492-570.

F.96. Gregorovius, Ferdinand. Rome and Medieval Culture. Trans. Annie Hamilton. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971.

F.97. Guidone de Corvaria. Fragmentae Historiae Pisanae. In Rerum Italicum Scriptores. A cura di Ludovico Antonio Muratori, XXIV. Mediolani 1738.

F.98. Hefele, Charles-Joseph. Histoire des conciles. Paris: Letouzey, 1914.
BL's Guelf diplomacy and Councils related.

F.99. °Heinimann, Siegfried. 'Umprägung antiker begriffe in BLs Rettorica'. Renatae litterae: Studien zum Nachleben der Antike und zur europäischen Renaissance August Buch zum 60. Geburstag a, .3.12.1971 dargebracht von Freunden un Schülen. Ed. Klaus Heitmann and Eckhart Schroeder. Frankfurt am Maine: Athenäeum Verlag, 1973. Pp. 13-22.

F.100. Heinimann, Siegfried. 'Zum wortschatz von BL Tresor'. Vox Romanica 27 (1968), 96-105.
On BL's contribution to French terminology on rhetoric.

F.101. Hertter, F. Die Podestàliteratur Italiens im 12 und 13 Jahrhundert. Leipzig: Teubner, 1910. Diss. Tübingen, 1910. Rpt. Hildesheim; Gerstebberg, 1973.

F.102. Higgins, David H. 'Cicero, Aquinas, and St Matthew in Inferno XIII'. DaSt 93(1975), 61-94. Rpbl. as 'The Bible as Palimpsest. Cicero, Aquinas and St Matthew in Inferno XIII' in Dante and the Bible, 1992, pp. 115-154.
Discusses BL's rhetorical writings in relation to Pier delle Vigne.

F.103. Hollander, Robert. 'Ugolino's Supposed Cannibalism: A Bibliographical Note'. Quaderni d'italianistica 6 (1985), 64-68.

F.104. Hollander, Robert and Albert L. Rossi. 'Dante's Republican Treasury'. Dante Studies 104 (1986), 59-82.

F.105. °Holmes, George. 'Lay Thought at Florence'. Florence, Rome and the Origins of the Renaissance. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. Pp. 71-88.

F.106. Huillard-Breholles, A. Vie et correspondence de Pierre de la Vigne, ministre de l'empereur Frédéric II. Paris: Plon, 1864.
Excellent study of notary and chancellor, whose life and letters influence BL, DA, Inf. XIII. See Be, Jb.


*F.107. Imbach, Ruedi. Dante, la philosophie et les laïcs, Initiations à la philosophie médiévale; 1. Fribourg, Paris: Editions universitaires; Editions du Cerf, 1996.

F.108. Jacomuzzi, Angelo. Il palinsesto della Rettorica e altri saggi danteschi. Firenze: Olschki, 1972.

F.109. Jordan, E. De Mercantibus camerae apostolicae: saeculo XIII. Oberthur: Rhedomum, 1909.

F.110. Jordan, E. Les origines de la domination angevine en Italie. Paris: Picard, 1909.

F.111. Kantorowicz, Ernst. 'Anonymi Aurea Gemma'. MH 1 (1943), 41-57.
On ars dictaminis.

F.112. Kantorowicz, Ernst. Federigo II Imperatore. Trans. Gianni Pilone Colombo. Milano: Garzanti, 1976.

F.113. °Kantorowicz, Ernst. The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theory. Princeton: University Press, 1957.
On contractual obligations of medieval monarchs to their subjects.

F.114. °Kleine, Michael. Searching for Latini. West Lafayette, Indiana: Parlor Press, 2006.
Discusses need to teach BL to American teachers of rhetoric.

F.115. Kay, Richard. 'Rucco di Cambio de' Mozzi in France and England'. StD 47 (1970), 49-53.
Discusses his presence in France at Fair of Champagne, etc., the legend of his suicide in Paris.

F.116. La Manta, Giuseppe. Codice Diplomatico dei Re Aragonesi di sicilia: Pietro I, Giacomo, Federico II, Pietro II e Ludovico dalla Rivoluzione siciliana del 1282 sino al 1355. Palermo: Boccone del Povero, 1917.

F.117. °Lasinio, Ernesto. 'Frammento di un quaderno di mandati dell'antica Camera del Comune di Firenze. Archivio storio italiano, ser. 5: 35 (1905), 440-447.

F.118. Laurent, Maria-Hyacinth. Le bienheureux Innocent V (Pierre de Tarantaise) et son temps. Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1947.
Discusses Carlo d'Angiò' oath of office, 1265, 1276, p. 334.

*F.119. Le Goff, Jacques. Marchands et banquiers du Moyen Age. Paris, 1956.

F.120. Lenkeith, Nancy. Dante and the Legend of Rome. London: Warburg Institute, 1962.

F.121. Liber iurum Reipublicae Genevensis I, in Historia Patriae Monumenta VII, Torino, 1836-84). Cols. 1201-4, 1212-15.

F.122. Il Libro di Montaperti (Anno MCCLX). Ed. Cesare Paoli. Firenze: Vieusseux, 1889. Documenti di Storia Italiana 9.
'Burnectus Bonaccursi Latini, iudici et notario', pp. 34, 123, 148, 172. See also Bolton Holloway (E), Stopani (E).

F.123. °Lindhart, Jan. Rhetor, Poeta, Historicus. Studien über rhetorische Erkenntniss und Lebensanschauung im italienischen Renaissancehumanismus. Leiden: Brill, 1979. Acta Theologica Danica 13. Pp. 103,179.

F.124. Lisciandrelli, Pasquali. Trattati e negoziazione politiche della repubblica di Genova (958-1791). Genova: Società ligure di Storia patria, 1960.
BL documents, #323-328, pp. 68-69. 

F.125. Macciocca, Gabriella. 'Antecedenti di "mazzerati" ("Inf." XXVIII 80) e diffusione di epistole federiciane volgari nel sec. XIII'. Cultura Neolatina 64.3-4 (2004), 541-557.
Notes from vocabulary that BL is bridge from Pier della Vigna and DA.

F.126. Maggini, Francesco. La Rettorica italiana di BL. Firenze: R. Istituto degli Studi Superiori di Firenze, 1912.
Study in preparation for edition (C.57). Splendid essay on source material.

F.126.Rev. Frati, C. GSLI 62 (1913), 432.

F.127. Maggini, Francesco. 'Orazioni ciceroniane volgarizzate da BL'. In I primi volgarizzamenti dei classici latini. Firenze: Le Monnier, 1952.

F.128. Maire Vigeur, Jean Claude. 'La società comunale. Un successo di popolo'. Medioevo, Un passato da riscoprire 9.8 (2005), pp. 61-73.

F.129. Malavolti, Orlando. Dell'historia di Siena. Venezia: Marchetti, 1599. 3 vols.
Brief account of Montaperti between Vols. I & II. Explains that the battle which dyed the Arbia red with blood, was caused by 1258 expulsion of Florentine Ghibellines to Siena by the Guelfs because of Tesauro of Vallombrosa's treachery.

F.130. °Marigo, Aristide. 'Il "cursus" nella prosa latina dalle origini cristiane ai tempi di Dante'. Atti e Memorie della Reale Academia di Padova 47, n.s. 1 (1931), 321-56, esp. 341-43, 356.
Discusses cursus of BL. See also G.

F.131. Martines, Lauro. Power and Imagination: City-States in Reniassance Italy. New York: Knopf, 1979.
Discusses BL, especially Tesoretto, in depth, pp. 115-23. Martines and Skinner (F) equally see BL's importance in Florentine republicanism, though Martines incorrectly speaks of BL as sympathetic to oligarchic elements.

F.132. °Marzi, Demetrio. La Cancelleria della Repubblica Fiorentina. Rocca S. Casciano: Capelli, 1910.
Speaks of BL passim and presents biography, pp. 35-48, noting that he was the first 'Dettatore e Cancelliere della Repubblica'.

*F.133. Masi, Gino. Formularum Florentinum artis notariae 1220-1242. Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 1943.
Cited, Wieruszowski (C.71), p. 187.

*F.134. Mazzoni, Francesco. 'Tematiche politiche tra Guittone e Dante'. Guittone d'Arezzo nel settimo centenario della morta. Atti del Convegno internazionale di Arezzo, 22-24 aprile 1994. A cura di Michelangelo Picone. Firenze: Casati, 1995. Pp. 351-383.
Cited, Bartuschat (F), noting pp. 355-363 on BL.

F.135. °Mazzotta, Giuseppe. Dante, Poet of the Desert: History and Allegory in the Divina Commedia. Princeton: University Press, 1974. Pp. 73-79, 138-41.

F.136. Mazzotta, Giuseppe. Dante's Vision and the Circle of Knowledge. Princeton: University Press, 1993.
References to BL, passim.

F.137. °Mazzotta, Giuseppe. 'Poetics of History: Inferno XXVI'. Diacritics 5 (1975), 37-38.
Important book and article, introducing BL to American dantisti in poetic/political context, and brilliantly relating Ulysses/Cicero and BL.

F.138. Mengaldo, Piervincenzo. Introduction to Dante Alighieri: De vulgari eloquentia. Padova: Antenor, 1968.
Pp. xxxviii-xlii on BL, rhetoric and poetics. Discusses Bolognan influence.

F.139. Merkel, C. 'L'opinione dei contemporanei sull'impresa italiana di Carlo d'Angiò'. Atti della R. Accademia dei Lincei, 4:4. Roma, 1888.
Basis for Barbero's study (F).

F.139.a. Michael, Michael A. 'Towards a Hermeneutics of the Manuscript: The Physical and Metaphysical Journeys of Paris, BNF, MS FR 571'. Freedom of Movement in the Middle Ages. Ed. Peregrine Horden. Donnington: Shaun Tyas, 2007.
On creation of MS P, Bibliothèque Nationale fr 571, for wedding of Philippa of Hainault to Edward III of England.

*F.140. Milner, Stephen J, 'Exile, Rhetoric and the Limits of Civic Republican Discourse'. At the Margins: Minority Groups in Pre-Modern Italy. Ed. Stephen J. Milner. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. Pp. 162-191.

F.141. °Montanelli, Indro, Roberto Gervaso. L'Italia dei Comuni: Il Medio Evo dal 1000 al 1250. Milano: Rizzoli, 1966.

F.142. Murphy, James J. 'John Gower's Confessio amantis and the First Discussion of Rhetoric in the English Language'. PQ 41 (1962), 401.11
Discusses transmission of ars dictaminis.

F.143. Najemy, John M. Corporatism and Consensus in Florentine Electoral Politics. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.

F.144. Najemy, John M. 'Brunetto Latini's Politica'. Dante Studies 112 (1994), 33-51.

F.145. °Nederman, C.J. 'The Union of Wisdom and Eloquence before the Renaissance: The Ciceronian Orator in Medieval Thought'. Journal of Medieval History 18 (1992), pp. 75-95, esp. 86-88.
Of Latino's works influenced by Cicero only discusses Tresor III, not Rettorica.

F.146. Nencione, Giovanni. 'Dante e la rettorica'. Dante e Bologna nei tempi di Dante: Comitato nazionale per le celebrazioni del VII centenario della nascita di Dante. Bologna: Carducci, 1967. Pp. 98-101.

F.147. Novati, Francesco. Freschi e minii del Dugento. Milano: Cogliati, 1925.
Contains many excellent essays of interest to BL studies:
'Federigo II e la cultura dell'età sua', pp. 83-113;  'Il Notaio nella vita e nella letteratura italiana delle origini', pp. 243-64; counters Imbriani (M) on BL as teacher, pp. 269-76.

F.148. Novati, Francesco. La giovinezza di Coluccio Salutati. Torino: Loescher, 1888. Chapter III.
States that Coluccio Salutati never mentions BL. Yet Laurenziana, Ashb. 492 shows the interest that the Renaissance Chancellor of Florence had in his medieval predecessor. Also the 15 C. Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale, II.II.82 (BbII.18,Bd.11) has Tesoro and Epistolarium, including Salutati's letters with BL's.

F.149. Novati, Francesco. Le Epistole. Conferenza letta da Francesco Novati nella Sala di Dante in Orsanmichele. Firenze: Sansoni, 1905. Lectura Dantis.
On ars dictandi. Challenges Imbriani (M), by stating BL educated DA, pp. 7-14.

F.150. Oculus pastoralis. In Antiquitatis italicae Medii Aevi. A cura di Lodovico Antonio Muratori. Milano, 1712. IV, pp. 92-128.
Important source for podestà material. Speaks of podestà as shepherd, people as flock, need for justice in the ruler, reverence in the people, love in both. Discusses office of ambassador, emperor, pope.

F.151. °Padoan, Giorgio. Il pio Enea, l'empio Ulisse: Tradizione classica e intendimento medievale in Dante. Ravenna: Longo, 1977.
Discusses uses of rhetoric in Commedia.

F.152. Passerin d'Entrèves, Alessandro. Dante as Political Thinker. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952.
Discusses BL, DA in terms of 'cityness', pp. 10-15.

F.153. °Pecori, Luigi. Storia della terra di San Gimignano. Firenze, 1953; Roma, Multigrafica Editrice, 1975.
BL Document XX.

F.154. Perrens, F.T. Histoire de Florence. Paris: Hachette, 1877. 6 vols.

F.155. Petrucchi, Armando. Notarii: Documenti per la storia del Notariato italiano. Milano: Giuffré, 1958.

F.156. Pier delle Vigne. Epistolarium quibus res gestae ejusdem imperatoris aliaque multa ad historia ac jurisprudentiam spectantia continentur libri VI. Ed. J. Rudulf Iselms. Basle: Schard, 1740.
See Be, also DA, Inf. XIII, Important, though early, edition.

F.157. Plebe, Armando. Breve storia dela retorica antica. Roma: Laterza, 1968/1988.

F.158. Porter, L.C. 'BL et les Moralistes'. EsC 2 (1962), 119-25.

F.159. Regesta Pontificum Romanorum. Ed. Augustus Potthast. Berlin: Decker, 1875.

F.160. Les Registres de Martin IV. Paris: Librairie françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, 1901.

*F.161. I registri della cancellaria Angioina. A cura di Riccardo Filangieri. Napoli: L'Accademia, 1950-1998. Testi e Documenti di Storia Napoletana Pubblicata dall'Accademia Pontaniana. 44 vols.

F.162. Renaudet, Augustin. 'Le problème historique de la Renaissance italienne'. In his Humanisme et Renaissance. Geneva: Droz, 1958.
Sees Florence as consciously reliving history of consular and senatorial Rome as students of Cicero and Livy, and argues that G. Villani and Machiavelli are part of this tradition.

F.163. Ricciardelli, Fabrizio. 'Exile as evidence of civic identity in Florence in the time of Dante: some examples'. Reti Medievali Rivista V (2004), 4-6. Firenze: University Press, 2004.

F.164. °Ricciardi, Micaela. 'Aspetti retorico-stilistici del volgarizzamento della 'Pro Ligario' di BL', Critica letteraria IX,II,31 (1981), 266-292.

F.165. Rubinstein, Nicolai. 'The Beginning of Political Thought in Florence'. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 5 (1942), 179-207.

F.166. °Rubinstein, Nicolai. 'Political Rhetoric in the Imperial Chancery During the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries'. Medium Aevum 14 (1945), 21-43.

F.167. °Rubinstein, Nicolai. 'Studies on the Political History of the Age of Dante'. Atti del Congresso internazionale di studi danteschi. Firenze: Sansoni, 1965.

F.168. °Runciman, Sir Steven. The Sicilian Vespers. Cambridge: University Press, 1982.

F.169. Russell, Robert O. Vox Civitatis: Aspects of Thirteenth-Century Communal Architecture in Lombardy. Princeton University Dissertation, 1988.

F.170. Russo, Vittorio. '"Exordio" e/o "proemio" nella "Rettorica" volgare e in Dante'. Strategie del testo. Preliminari Partizione Pause. Atti del XVI e del XVII Convegno Interuniversitario (Bressanone, 1988 e 1989). A cura di Gianfelice Peron. Pp. 111-131.
Discusses Tresor, Guido Faba, Boncomagno da Signa, etc.

*F.171. Sabatini, Francesco. Napoli angioina: cultura e società. Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1975.

F.172. Saint Priest, Alexis de. Histoire de la Conquête de Naples par Charles d'Anjou, frère de Saint Louis. Paris: Amyot, 1858.

F.173. °Saltini, Guglielmo Enrico. 'Privilegio del Comune di Firenze a Rodolfo di Benincasa D'Altomena'. Archivio storico italiano ser. 3, 16 (1872), 209-212.

F.174. Salveminini, Gaetano. 'Il Liber de regimine civitatum'. GSLI 41 (1903), 284-303.
On Giovanni da Viterbo, Aristotle and Oculus Pastoralis. BL, pp. 293-301. Cites 'Li Tresor' translated by 'Maistre Brunet Latin de latin en français', discussing third, last part of Tesoro as 'Politica', making use of Giovanni da Viterbo, LRC, Oculus pastoralis, and Rhetorica novissima of Boncompagno.

F.175. Salvemini, Gaetano. Magnati e Popolani in Firenze dal 1260 al 1295. Firenze: Carnesecchi, 1899.

F.176. Sandys, John Edwin. A History of Classical Scholarship from the Sixth Century B.C. to the End of the Middle Ages, I. Cambridge: University Press, 1903.
States that BL was the first to translate Cicero's speeches into the vernacular.

F.177. °Sanford, Eva Matthews. 'The Lombard Cities, Empire and Papacy in a Cleveland Manuscript'. Sp 12 (1937), 95-128.
Discusses MS now in American library containing Pier delle Vigne letters, chess discussions and Oculus pastoralis which Muratori published. Important for BL studies.

      F.177.MS. Cleveland Public Library, John Griswold White MS W789.092.M C37, Oculus pastoralis.

F.178. Santini, Giuglielmo Enrico. 'Privilegio del Comune di Firenze a Rodolfo di Benincasa d'Altomena'. Archivio storico italiano, ser. 3: 16 (1872), 209-218.

F.179. °Santini, Pietro. 'Su i fiorentini "che fu si degni"'. Studi danteschi 6 (1923), 24-44.
On Tegghaio di Aldobrando, Jacopo di Rusticucci, peace treaties between Volterra and San Gimignano, Guido Guerra's family and Tuscan League.

*F.180. Schaller, H.M. Handschriftenverzeichnis zur Briefsammlung des Petrus de Vinea. Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2002.
Cited, Roberta Cella,
A scuola con Ser Brunetto, ed. Maffia Scariati (Db.4). 

F.181. Schevil, Ferdinand. Medieval and Renaissance Florence. New York: Harper, 1963. First publ. as History of Florence from the Founding of the City through the Renaissance. London: Bell, 1937; Rpt. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1961. 2 vols.
Not as detailed as Davidsohn.

F.182. Schiaffini, Alfredo. 'Lo stile latineggiante dei volgarizzatori dei classici e il volgarizzamento di G. Boccaccio'. In Tradizione e poesia nella prosa d'arte italiana dalla latinità medievale al Boccaccio. Genova: Degli Orfini, 1934. Rpt. Roma: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1969. Pp. 120-205.
On Cicero and medieval rhetoric.

F.183. °Schiaffini, Alfredo. 'I precursori di Dante. I. Guittone d'Arezzo. II. Bono Giamboni. III. Guido Cavalcanti, Guittone e Brunetto Latini'. In Italiano antico e moderno (1975), pp. 263-270.

F.184. Schiaffini, Alfredo. Testi fiorentini del Dugento e dei primi del Trecento. Firenze: Sansoni, 1906/1926.

F.185. Schneider, Fedor. Regestum Volterranum. Roma: Loescher, 1907.
BL, document #649, p. 213.

F.186. Scott, A. John. 'Dante's Political Experience (1265-1302)'. Dante's Political Purgatory. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. Pp. 3-20.
Using French Tresor, discusses DA's use of Cato's suicide.

F.187. Seigel, Jerrold E. Rhetoric and Philosophy in Renaissance Humanism. Princeton: University Press, 1968.
Renaissance bias excludes BL.

F.188. Sgrilli, Paola. 'Retorica e società: tensioni anti-classiche nella Rettorica di BL'. MedR 3 (1976), 380-93.
Sees BL as medievalizing Cicero.

F.189. °Sismondi, J.C.L. History of the Italian Republics in the Middle Ages. Trans. William Boulting. London: Routledge, n.d.

F.190. °Skinner, Quentin. 'Ambrogio Lorenzetti: The Artist as Political Philosopher'. Proceedings of the British Academy, 19 February 1986. Pp. 1-56.

F.191. Skinner, Quentin. The Foundation of Modern Political Thought. I. The Renaissance. Cambridge: University Press, 1978.
Presents an excellent discussion of BL in his Florentine political context.

F.192. °Sørensen, Gert. 'The Reception of the Political Aristotle in the late Middle Ages (from BL to DA)'. Renaissance Reading of the Corpus Aristotelicum: Papers from the Conference Held in Copenhagen 23-25 April 1998. Ed. Marianne Pade. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculum Press, 2001. Pp. 9-25.

F.193. Spitzer, Leo. 'Speech and Language in Inferno XIII'. It 19 (1942), 81-104. Rpt in his Romanische Literastudien 1936-1956. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1959, Pp. 544-68.
Brilliantly discusses Pier delle Vigne and BL, especially their use of language.

F.194. Stephany, William. 'Pier della Vigna's Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: The Eulogy of Frederick II and Inferno 13' Traditio 38 (1982), 193-212.

F.195. °Stopani, Renato. L'Aguato di Montaperti. Firenze: Editoriale Gli Arcipressi, 2002.

F.196. Struever, Nancy. The Language of History in the Renaissance: Rhetoric and Historical Consciousness in Florentine Humanism. Princeton: University Press, 1970.
Notes that BL paraphrases Cicero but adds the end of rhetoric is 'per amare dio e'l prossimo', p. 60.

*F.197. Tabasso, A.P. 'Brunetto Latini: le retorica per il governo della città all'uso d'Italia.' Portales 3-4 (2003-2'04), 30-35.

F.198. Tanturli, Giuliano. 'Continuità dell'umanismo civile da BL a Leonardo Bruni'. Gli umanismi medievali. Atti del II congresso dell''Internationales Mittellateiner Komitee'. Ed. Claudio Leonardi. Firenze: SISMEL, 1998. Pp. 735-780.
Speaks of republican interpretation of history of Rome by Florentines.

F.199. Theiner, Augustin. Codex Diplomaticus Domini Temporalis S. Sedis. Roma: Vaticano, 1861.
Urban and Clement's l etters to Charles about need for good government.

F.200. Theseider, Eugenio Duprè. Roma dal Comune di Popolo alla Signoria Pontifica (1252-1377). Bologna: Capelli, 1952.
Noting Charles of Angiò used white/gold French lilies.

F.201. °Thompson, Augustine O.P. Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Comunes 1125-1325. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005.

F.202. Toynbee, Paget. Dantis Alagherii Epistolae. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966.

F.203. °Vasaturo, R.N. 'Vallombrosa: note storiche'. In Vasaturo, G, Morozzi, G. Marchine & . Baldini. Vallombrosa. Firenze: Giorgi & Gambi, 1973. Pp- 60-61, 77.
Good account of Abbot Tesauro de Beccaria of Vallombrosa with fine documentation.

F.204. Q. Fabii Laurentii Victorini. Explanationum in Rhetoricam M. Tullii Ciceronis libri duo. Ed. C. Halm. Leipzig: Teubner, 1863. Rhetores Latini Minori.

F.205. °Villani, Filippo. Le Vite d'uomini illustri fiorentini. A cura di Giammaria Mazzuchelli. Firenze: Magheri, 1826: Roma, Multigrafica Editrice, 1980.

F.206. Villani, Filippo. Liber de civitatis Florentinae famosis civibus. Firenze: Mazzoni, 1847. P. 30.
Important BL vita. Biblioteca Laurenziana Ashburnham MS 492 of this text has corrections by Coluccio Salutati and adds in margin 'rhetorico' and 'quem thesaurum appellant'.

F.207. °Villani, Giovanni. Istorie fiorentine. Milano: Società tipografica dei classici italiani, 1802-03.
Magnificent, near-contemporary history of Florence. Notes, p. 212: 'E nel detto anno MCCXCIV morì in Firenze un valente cittadino, il quale ebbe nome messer Brunetto Latini: il quale fu un grande filosofo, e fu sommo maestro in retorica in bene sapere dire quanto in bene dittare. E fu quello ch'espose la retorica di Tullio, e fece il buono e utile libro detto Tesoro, e'l Tesoretto e la chiave del Tesoro e pù altri libri in filosofia e de' vizi e di virtù, e fu dittatore del nostro comune'.

F.208. Villari, Pasquale. I primi due secoli della storia di Firenze. Firenze: Sansoni, 1893. Trans. Linda Villari as The Two First Centuries of Florentine History: The Republic and Parties at the Time of Dante. London: Unwin, 1908. Rpt. New York: AMS, 1975.

F.209. Weise, Berthold and Erasmo Pércopo. Geschichte der italienischen Literatur von den ältesten Beiten bis zur Gegenwart. Leipzig, 1899.
Discuss, reproduce, Archivio di Stato di Siena, 20 April, 11 June, 1254, Peace between Siena and Florence, BL writes, pp- 55-65.

F.210. Weiss, Roberto. 'Lineamenti per una storia del primo umanismo fiorentino'. Rivista storica italiana 60 (1948), 349-66.

F.211. Weiss, Roberto. The Spread of Italian Humanism. London: Hutchinson, 1964.
Discusses function of Latin Secretary of State. A study is needed of this political role and its relations to poets, e.g. BL, DA, Chaucer, Wyatt, Milton, Dryden, Marvell, all of whom were both diplomats and literary writers.

F.212. Wieruszowski, Helene. 'Ars dictaminis in the time of Dante'. MH 1 (1943), 95-108. Also in F152.

F.213. °Wieruszowski, Helene. 'Conjuraciones y alianzas políticas del rey Pedro de Aragón contra Carlos de Anjou antes de la Visperas Sicilianas: Nuevas documentos procedentes del Archivio de la Corona de Aragón'. Boletin de la Real Academia de la Historia 107 (1935), 547-587.

F.214. Wieruszowski, Hélène. Politics and Culture in Medieval Spain and Italy. Roma: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1971. Pp. 359-77.
Discusses ars dictaminis. See also her 'Arezzo in the Thirteenth Century' in this collection, pp. 434-62, on BL's translation of Cicero and on his use of Vignolan style in the Florentine Chancery, her 'Art and the Comuni in the Time of Dante', pp. 490-492.

F.215. °Witt, Ronald G. 'Boncompagno and the Defense of Rhetoric'. JMRS 16 (1986), 1-31.
Favours the Ciceronian stilus humilis of the Italians versus the florid French style adopted by Bene of Florence in Candelabrum or the stilus rhetoricus of Frederic II's Chancery.

F.216. °Witt, Ronald G. 'Brunetto Latini and the Italian Tradition of ars dictaminis'. Stanford Italian Review (Spring 1983), 5-24.
Useful survey of material on BL and rhetoric. Does not relate this to Dante.

F.217. Witt, Ronald G. Hercules at the Crossroads: The Life, Works and Thought of Coluccio Salutati. Durham: North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1983.

F.218. Witt, Ronald G. 'Latini, Lovato and the Revival of Antiquity'. DaSt 112 (1994), 53-59.
Notes Albertano da Brescia's revival of antiquity in opposition to French chivalry, followed by BL's use of Cicero.

F.219. Witt, Ronald G. 'Medieval Ars dictaminis and the Beginnings of Humanism: A New Construction of the Problem'. Renaissance Quarterly 35 (1982), 3-5.
On Dante's stilus rhetoricus.

F.220. Yowell, Donna L. 'Ugolino's "bestial segno": The De vulgari eloquentia in Inferno XXXII-XXXIII'. DaSt 104 (1986), 121-143.

F.221. Zabbia, Marino. 'Formation et culture des notaires (XIe-XIVe siècle)'. Cultures italiennes (XIIe-XVe siècles). A cura di Isabelle Heullant-Donat. Paris: Cerf, 2000. Pp. 297-324, esp. 314.
Discusses notary as validated by Emperor or Pope (or Comune), relation to ars dictaminis.

F.222. Zingarelli, Nicola. La vita, i tempi e le opere di Dante. Milano: Vallardi, 1931.
On cursus of letter to Pavia, p. 42.

F.223. Zumthor, Paul. Langue, texte, énigme. Paris: Seuil, 1975.
'Dans la rhétorique en français qu'il integra vers 1265 à son Tresor il présente le dessein rhétorique comme un projet d'éducation de la classe politique des villes italiennes', p. 99.


G. Didactic Allegory, Cosmography, Bestiaries and Encyclopedism

Laurentian Library, Plut. 42.19, Brunetto Latino, IlTesoro, folio 72

Both Il Tesoretto and Li Livres dou Tresor are encyclopedic works, written in the manner of Isidore, Vincent de Beauvais and the Chartrian poets. For the debate among the critics concerning BL's didactic allegorization, see D. Wieruszowski (C.71) discusses BL's cosmology, pp. 177-85. Sources to investigate concerning these matters are Ptolemy/Alfraganus, Almagest (Jb,La1) and Petrus Alfonsi (Jb). Chabaille (C.39) and Degenhart (Ia) are useful for visual evidence of cosmology and allgeory. In relation to this material one should look also at Francesco da Barberino (LaII), Scherillo (E), pp- 212-21, and Fauriel (E), pp. 290-91. See also Billanovich, Giuseppe, Maria Prandi, Claudio Scarpati. 'Lo "Speculum" di Vincenzo di Beauvais et la letteratura italiana dell'età gotica'. Italia medievale e umanistica XIX (1976), 89-170 (Jb).

For material concerning the mappaemundi (which BL gained largely from his encounter with Arabic scholaship at the court of Alfonso el Sabio, specifically his knowledge of Alfraganus' Almagest which he will teach to DA, C.85, p. xxiii, 152), see Gaston Paris (E), pp. 139-44; Michael C. Andrew, 'The Study and Classification of Medieval Mappae Mundi', Archeologia 75 (1926), 61-76; Abraham bar Hiyya, La obra 'Forma de la tierra', ed. José Millás Vallicrosa, Madrid, 1965; Konrad Miller, Mappae Arabicae, Stuttgart, 1927; Mappaemundi, 1896-98; George Sarton, 'Konrad Miller: Mappae Arabicae', Isis 9 (1927), 458-62; Joachim Lelewel, Géographie du Moyen Age, Brussels, 1852, 2 vols. These are studies of the visual representation of the world; however, BL is also copying Ptolemy/Alfraganus in his verbal mapping of the world's geography. This trait can be observed also in the Roman de la Rose and the Commedia which are called mappae mundi by an early commentator, Laurent de Premierfait (for which see John V. Fleming, The 'Roman de la Rose': A Study in Allegory and Iconography, Princeton: University Press, 1969, p. 18), and in the Travels of Sir John Mandeville, who says his book was checked against a mappae mundi by the Pope upon his return. Visually BL's maps in Il tesoretto (Laurenziano Strozziano 146, Ba.1) and Tresor (Douce 319, BbI.22) are upside.down in the Arabic manner (C.85,C.99).

A brief note on the Chartrians: R.W. Southern has pointed out that 'Chartrian' is really a nineteenth-century term for a group of Neoplatonists actually centred in Paris but whose names coincidentally associated them with Chartres. Important studies on the body of material connected with twelfth-century Neoplatonists in France include: Brain Stock, The Myth of Science in the Twelfth Century: A Study of Bernardus Sylvester, Princeton: University Press, 1972; Winthrop Wetherbee, ed. and trans. The Cosmographia of Bernardus Silvestris, New York: Columbia University Press, 1973. Earlier material includes A. Clerval, Les Ecoles de Chartres au Moyen Age du Ve au XVIe siècle, Chartres: Mémoires de la Societé Archéologique, 1895; Charles Homer Haskins, The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1927; Reginald Lane Poole, Illustrations of the History of Medieval Thought, London: Willian & Wingate, 2nd ed., 1920. Surprisingly, George P. Economou, The Goddess Natura in Medieval Literature, Cambridge, Mass.;  Harvard University Press, 1972, omits BL's Tesoretto and its depiction of Natura. The affinity between BL's writings and the English Piers Plowman is due to their sharing of the French vision material which in the twelfth century was written in Latin, in the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries in the vernacular and which used a vision framework in which to present their didactic encyclopedism. For this see the Roman de la Rose and also John Fleming's The 'Roman de la Rose'. BL is both a Neoplatonist 'Chartrian' and a scholastic Aristotelian. It had been Boethius' dream to reconcile Plato and Aristotle. BL uses Platonism for Il tesoretto, Aristotelianism for his Tresor, and is comfortable with both. So also is DA.

       

G.1. D'Alche, Patrick Gauthier. 'Pseudo-Asaph, "De Natura Quatuor Elementarum": Une traduction latine de la philosophie naturelle du "Tresor" (Paris, B.N. [F]. lat.6556'. A scuola con Ser Brunetto, ed. Maffia Scariati (Db.4.), 147-165.
Like T. Bertelli, I read this manuscript as copying the source for Brunetto Latini, rather than as a translation of him, in part because of my research under Sir Richard Southern on the twelfth-century physician cosmographer Petrus Alfonsi and the use of 'Arin' in Arabic cosmography. See the original challenge by Léopold Delisle of the Ecole des Chartes  to Timoteo Bertelli of the Accademia dei Lincei: http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/bec_0373-6237_1893_num_54_1_462728

G.2. Antonelli, Roberto, Paolo Canettieri, Arianna Punzi. 'L"enkyklios paideia" in Dante'. Studi sul canone letterario del Trecento. Per Michelangelo Picone. Ed. Johannes Bartuschat e Luciano Rossi. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2003. Pp. 33-42.
Discusses paideia of Brunetto, Dante, Boccaccio as copia.

G.3. Baldacci, Osvaldo. 'La terra sferica in prosa e rima toscane (Secc. XIII-XV)'. CeS, 114.29 (1990), 201-210.
Discusses John of Sacrobosco, De sphaera mundi, influence of BL on DA, Francesco da Barberino.

G.4. Barański, Zygmunt G. 'Dante fra "sperimentalismo" e "enciclopedismo"'. L'enciclopedismo medievale. A cura di Michelangelo Picone. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 1994. Pp. 383-404. Rpbl. as  'La vocazione enciclopedica'. Dante e i segni: Saggi per una storia intellettuale di Dante Alighieri. Napoli, Liguori, 2000. Pp. 77-101.

G.5. Barański, Zygmunt G. 'La lezione exegetica di Inferno I: Allegoria, storia e letteratura nella Commedia'. Dante e le forme dell'Allegoria. A cura di Michelangelo Picone. Ravenna: Longo, 1987. Pp. 79-97, esp. 87.
On allegorical dream vision form of Tesoretto and Commedia.

G.6. *Battelli, Guido. 'Segreti di magia in un codice del Tesoro di BL'. AR 7 (1923), 337-48.
Cited, Mattalía (E), p. 44.

G.7. Beltrami, Piero G. 'Tre schede sul "Tresor"'. Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia, ser. III, 23, n° I, pp. 115-90.

G.7a. Beltrami, Piero G. 'Appunti su vicende del 'Tresor': composizione, letture, riscritture', L'enciclopedismo medievale, a cura di Michelangelo Picone. Atti del Convegno (San Gimignano, 8-10 ottobre 1992). Ravenna: Longo, 1994, 311-328

G.8. °Bolton Holloway, Julia. 'The Round Earth's Imagined Corners'. In Misconceptions about the Middle Ages. Ed. Stephen J. Harris and Bryon L. Grigsby http://www.the-orb.net/non_spec/missteps/ch7.html and http://www.umilta.net/round.html

*G.9. Brusegan, R. 'L'énumeration et les chiffres: du Roman de la Rose au Tesoretto'. Létterature 130 (2003), 48-67.

     G.9.Rev. °YWMLS 2004/2006, p. 77.

*G.10. Capaccioni, Francesco. 'La nature des animaux nel Tresor di Brunetto Latini. Indagine sulle fonti'. Bestiaires médiévaux. Nouvelles perspectives sur les manuscrits et les traditions textuelles. Communications présentées au XVe colloque de la Société internationale renardienne (Louvain-la-Neuve, 19-22.08.2003). Ed. Baudouin Van den Abeele. Louvain-la-Neuve, Université catholique de Louvain (Publications de l'Institut d'études médiévales. Textes, études, congrès, 21). 2005. Pp. 31-47.
Cited, Laurent Brun.

G10.Rev. °YWMLS 2005/2007, p. 78.

*G.11. Capelli, Luigi Mario. Primi studi sulle enciclopedie medievali: Le fonti delle enciclopedie latine del XII secolo: Saggio critico. Modena: Namias, 1897.
Cited, Testa (C7), #20, p. 88.

G.12. Charpentier, Hélène. 'Le Livre dou Tresor de BL. Mythe de rejeunissement ou idéal d'experience'. Vieillesse et vieillissement au Moyen-Age. Aix-en-Provence: CUERMA Université de Provence, 1987.
On age and youth among Biblical figures, in bestiary, in politics.

G.13. Cian, Vittoria. 'Vivaldo Belcazar e l'enciclopedismo italiano delle origini'. GSLI, Supplement, 1902. Torino: Loescher, 1902.
Has also published on BL in *Varietà dugentesche, Pisa, 1901.

G.14. Costa, Elio. 'Il Tesoretto di BL e la tradizione medievale'. Dante e le forme dell'allegoria. Ed. Michelangelo Picone. Ravenna: Longo, 1987. Pp. 43-58.
On integumentum.

G.15. Denis, M. Ferdinand. Le Monde enchanté: Cosmographie et histoire naturelle fantastique du Moyen Age. Paris: Fournier, 1345. Rpt. New York: Burt Franklin, n.d. Pp. 48, 125-70.

G.17. De Poli, Luigi. 'Formes de la Prudence de BL à Dante'. La representation de la Prudence: Actes du Colloque, Université de Haute Alsace, 5 mars 1999. Chroniques italiennes 60 (1999), 45-56.
On DA's use of Prudence from BL/Cicero. Also discusses meanings of gems in their texts from lapidaries.

*G.18. Deyermond, Alan. 'El Alejandro medieval, el Ulises de Dante y la búsqueda de las Antipodas'. Maravillas, peregrinaciones y utopias. Literature de viajes en el mundo románico. Ed. Rafael Beltrán. València: Universitat de València, 2002. Pp. 15-32.

G.19. Frati, Carlo. 'Re Enzo e un'antica versione di due tratti di falconeria'. Miscellanea tassoniana. Ed. Tommaso Casini. Modena: Formiggini, 1908. Pp. 61-81.

G.20. °Goetz, Walter. 'BL un die arabische Wissenschaft'. Deutsches Dante-Jahrbuch 21 (1939), 101-30.
Considers BL's sojourn in Spain too brief for exposure to Arabic materials.

G.21. Gómez Moreno, Ángel. 'La perdix en la literatura, el folklore e el arte: a proposito de una charla sobre Brunetto Latini'. Quadernos de Filologia italiana 6 (2000), pp. 85-98.
Discusses partridge in BL's Bestiary and elsewhere.

G.22. °Jauss, Hans Robert. 'BL als allegorischer Dichter'. In Formenwandel: Festschrift zur 65. Geburtstag von Paul Böckmann. Hamburg: Hoffmann & Campe, 1964. Pp. 47-92. 'Brunetto Latini poeta allegorico'. Alterità e modernità della litteratura medievale. Torino: Bollati Bolighieri, 1989. Pp. 135-174.
A major discussion of Il tesoretto. Speaks of French allegory of Chartrians coming into contact with Tuscan tradition of teaching rhetoric, resulting in Tesoretto, and sees this work as Boethian Menippian key to Tresor. Excellent bibliographical notes. See also D.

G.23. Langlois, Charles Victor. La Connaissance de la nature et du monde au Moyen Age d'après quelques écrits français à l'usage des laïcs. Paris: Hachette, 1927. Vol. III.
Important also for source studies, noting the use of Philippe de Thaon, Image du monde, and encyclopedia of Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum, the romance of Sidrach in an Italian version, and Plato's Timaeus in medieval material. Final essay dedicated to Tresor. See BgII. on Minckwitz.

*G.24. Malaxecheverria, Ignacio. 'L'hydre et le crocodile médiévaux'. Romance Notes 21 (1980-1981), 376-380.
Notes Pierre le Picard and E.N. Ham, 'The Cambrai Bestiary', MP 36 (1939). Compares with BL, Tresor.

 G.25. Marigo, Aristide. 'Lo Speculum ed il Tresor: cultura letteraria e preumanistica nelle maggiori enciclopedie del Dugento'. GSLI 68 (1916), 1-42, 289-326, esp. 315-16.
Discusses Isidore and Cicero as influences upon Tresor. A splendidly learned article.

G.26. Martinez Perez, A. 'Li Livres dou Tresor de BL y su caràcter divulgados'. Il Duecento, Actas del IV Congreso Nacional di Italianisti. Universidad di Santiago de Compostela 24-26 Marzo de 1988. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1989. Pp. 469-476.
On education and encyclopedism.

G.27. Maurice, Jean. '"Croyances populaires" et "histoire" dans le Livre des animaux: jeux de polyphonie dans un bestiare de la seconde moitié du XIIIe siècle'. Romania 441-442:3 (1990), 153-178.
On the mixture of realism and fantasy, the latter treated sceptically, in BL's Li Livre dou Tresor.

G.28. Maurice, Jean. 'La formule "Et sachiés que", indice de la spécificité de "Livre des animaux" de BL'. Romania 106:3-4 (1985), 527-538.
On BL, Bestiary formula.

*G.29. Maurice, Jean. 'La place du Livre des animaux de Brunetto Latini dans la tradition médiévaux'. Bestiarien im Spannunsfeld zwischen Mittelalter und Moderne. Ed. Gisela Febel and Egorg Maag. Tübingen, 1997. Pp. 40-47.
Cited, Laurent Brun.

*G.30. Maurice, Jean. 'Signes animaux au XIIIe siècle dans les bestiaires moralisés e dans le bestiaire "enciclopedique" de Brunetto Latini'. L'animalité: Hommes et anuimaux dans la littérature française. Ed. A. Nidert. Tűbingen, Narr (Etudes littéraires françaises, 61), 1994. Pp. 39-54.

*G.31. Mazzotta, Giuseppe. 'Poetry and Encyclopedia'. Dante's Vision and the Circle of Knowledge. Princeton: University Press, 1993. Pp. 15-33.

*G.32. Meier, Christel. 'Cosmos politicus. Der Funktionswandel der Enzyklopädie bei Bruno Latini'. Frühmittelalterliche Studien 18 (1988), 315-356.
Cited, Laurent Brun, Venturi (Da).

*G.33. Meier, Christel. 'Vom Homo Coelestis zum Homo Faber. Die Reorganisation der mittelalterlichen Enzyklopädie für neue Gebrauchesfunktionen bei Vinzenz von Beauvais und Brunetto Latini'. Pragmatische Schriftlichkeit im Mittelalter, Erscheinungsformen und Entwicklungesstufen. Akten des Internationalen Kolloquiums 17-19 Mai 1989. Ed. Hagen Keller, Klaus Grubmüller and Nikolaus Staubach. München: Fink, 1992. Münstersche Mittelalter-Schriften 65. Pp. 157-175.
Cited, Laurent Brun.

*G.34. Meyer, C. 'BL e la scuola di Chartres'. Atroposofia 7-9 (1947), 207-14.
Cited Mattalía (E), p. 44; Costa (E).

*G.35. Meyer, Paul. 'Les bestiaires'. Histoire littéraire de la France. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1915. XXXIV.362-390, esp. 389.
Cited, Laurent Brun.

G.36. °Minutelli, Sonia. “La cosmografia figurata nei codici in volgare del ‘Tesoro’ di Brunetto Latini”. Tesi, Università degli Studi di Udine, 2003-2004. CDs

G.37. Orr, M.A, (Mrs John Evershed). Dante and the Early Astronomers. Introduction, Barbara Reynolds. London:  Wingate, 1956. First publ., 1913.
Despite belief that BL knew Roger Bacon personally (see M, N4), an excellent account of BL's life, writings, influence on Dante astronomical knowledge.

G.39. Payen, H.C. 'Li Livre philosophique et de moralité d'Alard de Cambrai'. R 87 (1966), 145-74.
Relates to Tresor, esp. pp. 168-74.

G.40. Renucci, Paul. L'aventure de l'humanisme européen au Moyen Age. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1953.
Discusses Franco-Italian 'translatio studi'. Mentions Taddeo di Alderotto's move to Bologna from Florence. Notes that Gerard of Cremona was also at Bologna as well as in Spain, and, p. 144, that BL, writing Tresor in French, was following well-established custom. Discusses Roman de la Rose, p. 148, noting that Detto d'amore is in same hand as Fiore. Relates these to Tesoretto. For Taddeo di Alderotti, see also Ke.

G.41. Vasoli, Cesare. 'Il "Convivio" di Dante e l'encicpedismo medievale'. L'enciclopedismo medievale. Atti Del Convegno 'L'enciclopedismo Medievale'. San Gimignano, 8-10 Ottobre 1992. A cura di Michelangelo Picone. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 1994. Pp. 363-381.
Tresor, 'la chiave' di Dante, p. 373.

*G.42. Voisenet, J. 'L'espace domestique chez les auteurs du Moyen Age d'Isidore de Séville à Brunetto Latini'. L'homme, l'animal domestique et l'environment du Moyen Age au XVIIIe siècle. Ed. P. Durand. Nantes: Oest Editions, 1993. Pp. 42-3.
On Brunetto and ecology.


H. Languages and Linguistics.

Like John Gower, whom he influenced (F, LcIII), BL is a trilingual writer. His Tresor is in Picard French, albeit with Italianisms and Latinisms, Orazioni, Tesoretto and Rettorica in Italian (Pozzi notes his gallicisms in Tesoretto, C.73), his letters of state in Latin. His reason for writing Tresor in French, though it is clearly about Florentine civic policy, is because that is the lingua franca (particularly of Charles of Anjou for whom it was intended). Sir John Mandeville and Marco Polo likewise were to give this as their reason for writing in French rather than their own vernaculars. See, concerning this, Josephine Waters Bennett, The Rediscovery of Sir John Mandeville, New York: MLA, 1954, who finds that Mandeville really was an Englishman and that the best manuscripts of his work are Anglo-Norman and in English libraries; chauvinist Belgian scholars in the nineteenth century claimed him as a Belgian, only pretending to be English. As for BL's use of Italian, he is a major early Florentine writer, thus shaping (especially through his teaching of Dante) the Italian language. For this reason the Accademia della Crusca made use of his works for its Vocabolario (H) in the manner that Furnivall and Murray were later to do with medieval English texts for the Oxford English Dictionary. Chabaille (B.39), p. xxvi, notes that Du Cange used Tresor: see Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitati, Index auctorum, X, xv. Concerning the use of Latin and the vernacular in this period see Michail Baktin, Rabelais and his World, trans. Hélène Iswolsky, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1968; Woflram von Steinem, 'Das mittelalterliche Latein als historisches Phänomen', Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte 7 (1957), 1-27; Dante's comments in VE and Convivio. See Pézard (LbIV), who claims that DA considers BL a traitor to Italian for writing in French. We know now that BL also wrote an Italian version of Tresor; apart from the Latin documents of state, all his other works are also in Italian. He was influenced by Alfonso el Sabio's vernacular writings and in turn influences DA to use Florentine vernacular. Pézard's charge is unfounded. The remainder of BL's Italian writings, other than La rettorica and Il tesoretto, need a critical edition for philological work. See Carducci (E).

H.1. Armour, Peter. 'Brunetto, the Stoic Pessimist'. DaSt 112 (1994), 1-18.
Notes 'settenari baciati' verse of Tesoretto, closest in Italian to rhymed octocyllables of Roman de la Rose, p. 13.

H.2. Cornish, Alison. Vernacular Translation in Dante's Italy: Illiterate Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Study of volgarizzamenti in Italian and French manuscripts.

    H.2.Rev. Bolton Holloway, Julia. MLR. Forthcoming.

H.3. Cura Curà, Giulio. 'A proposito di BL volgarizzatore: osservazioni sulle "Pro Marcello". La Parola del Testo 1 (2002), 27-52.
Close analysis of BL's translation from Cicero.

H.4. Dardano, M. Lingua e tecnica narrativa nel Duecento. Roma: Bulzoni, 1969. Pp. 46-89.
Discusses I Fiori e vita di filosafi ed altri savi ed imperadori, notes Trajan story from Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum historiale, also John of Salisbury, Policraticus. Cites MSS, *Cod. Estensis VII.B.8; *Ricc. 2280, BNF, Conv. Soppr. F.IV.776, *Magl. IX.10.61 (did this become Biblioteca Nazionale, II.II.72?)

H.5. *Dembowsky, P.F. 'Learned Latin Treatises in French'. Viator 14 (1986), 257.
Cited, Venturi (C.8).

H.6. Dionisotti, C. 'Tradizione classica e volgarizzamenti'. Geografia e storia della letteratura italiana. Torino: Einaudi, 1967.
Overview of Fiore question.

H.7. Fissi, Rosetta Maria. '"Onde filos e Sofia" (Convivio III, xi,5 e Rettorica 17.6)' StD 51 (1978), 179-214.
States that Dante derives this from BL, and counters Parodi's 'una glossa grossalana'.

H.8. Gentili, Sonia. 'Cerberos quasi kreaboros': i scuia/ingoia in Inf. VI.18'. Cultura Neolatina 57: 1-2 (1997), 103-146.
Lexicographical study.

H.9. Kelly, Douglas. 'Translatii Studii: Translation, Adaptation and Allegory in Medieval French Literature', PQ 57 (1978), 287 ff.
P. 292, notes BL quotes Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Poetria Nova on Iseut's beauty.

H.10. Messelaar, P.A. Le Vocabulaire des idées dans le 'Tresor' de Brunet Latin. Assen: Van Gorcum, 1963.
Takes up Paul Zumthor's challenge in 'Pour une histoire du vocabulaire française des idées', ZRP 72 (1956), p. 350. Notes problems in dealing in this way with a bilingual author.

H.10.Rev. Höfler, M. ZRP 81 (1964), 364-70.

H.11. Meyer, Paul. 'De l'expansion de la langue française en Italie pendant le Moyen Age'. Atti del Congresso internazionale di Scienze storiche IV. Roma, 1903, pp. 61-104, esp. p. 94.
Discusses dialects of Europe and reasons for BL's use of French. Arsenal MS 3645, among others, is composed in French in Italian hand of 13-14 C.

H.12. Migliorini, Bruno. Storia della lingua italiana. Firenze: Sansoni, 1963.
Briefly discusses importance of BL and language, as notary, as writer in French and Italian, as translator of Cicero, as teacher of Dante.

*H.13. Morreale, Margherita. 'Apèuntes para la histroia de la traduccion en la Edad Meda'. Revista de Literature 15 (1959), 3-10.
Cited, Barrette/Baldwin (C.98).

H.14. Parodi, Ernesto Giacomo. Lingua e letteratura: studi di teoria, linguistica e di storia dell'italiano antico. A cura di Gianfranco Folena, Preface, Alfredo Schiaffini. Venezia: Neri Pozzi, 1957. Vol. II.
Linguistic discussion of BL, DA, p. 368; notes that BL and others discuss Jason, Argonautica, from Aristotle, p. 441. Chapter II, DA, BL and cursus in epistles.

H.15. Perticari di Savignano, Giulio. Opere. Bologna: Guidi, 1838. 2 vols. Rpt. Torino: Salesiano, 1876.
Typtical Risorgimento work describing consciousness of Italy forged through her literature. Desires an academic purity of language. Discusses Tesoro and Tesoretto in linguistic terms. Notes that Tesoro editions are corrupt, and stresses need to correct for revised Vocabolario della Crusca (H).

H.16. Perugi, Maurizio. '"La parleüre plus delitable", Osservazioni sulla lingua del "Tresor"'. A scuola con Ser Brunetto, ed. Maffia Scariati (Db.4), 493-513.

H.17. Ricciardi, Micaela. 'Aspetti retorico-stilistici del volgarizzamento della "Pro Ligario" di BL'. Critica letteraria 9 (1981), 266-92.

H.18. Richards, Earl Jeffrey. Dante and the 'Roman de la Rose': An Investigation into the Vernacular Narrative Context of the 'Commedia'. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1981. Beihefte sur ZRP 184.
A substantially revised form of his 1978 Princeton Ph.D. diss., 'Dante's Commedia and its Vernacular Narrative Context' (DAI 78 [1978-79], 2250). A careful, controversial and sometimes brilliant analysis of the relationship between the Tesoretto and the Commedia. For further material on this subject, see his bibliography, pp. 109-116.

H.19. Salviati, Lionardo. Avvertimenti della lingua sopra il Decamerone. Venezia: Guerra, 1584.
Discusses MSS and printed edition, and notes that the language is not Provençal. Also discusses Taddeo di Alderotto, II, 106. See also Ke.

H.20. Sanchez Gonzalez de Herrero, Maria Nieves. 'Testimonios medievales de la version castellana del "Libro del Tesoro" de Brunetto Latini'. A scuola con Ser Brunetto, ed. Maffia Scariati (Db.4), 177-184.

H.21. Segre, Cesare. 'La sintassi del periodo nei primi prosatori italiani (Guittone, Brunetto, Dante)' e 'La "Rettorica" di BL'. Lingua, stile e società. Studi sulla storia della prosa italiana. Milano: Feltrinelli, 1974. Pp. 176-226.
Close discussion of syntax of BL's Italian texts.

H.22. Spogli elettronici dell'italiano delle origini e del Duecento. II. Forme. A cura di Mario L. Alinei. I. Prose Fiorentine. A cura di A. Schiaffini. The Hague: Mouton, 1968.
Electronic vocabulary, concordance of the 'Tesoro dell'italiano delle origini'.

*H.23. Thomas, Joannes. 'Brunetto Latinis Übersetzung der drei "Caesarianae". Pro Marcello, Pro Ligario, Pro Rege Deiotaro: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der italienischen Sprache des Duecento'. Diss. Cologne, 1969. Pp. 312.
Lexical analysis.

H.23.Rev. Vineiss, Edoardo. 'BL traduttore: a proposito di un recente studio'. LN 31 (1970), 75-82.

H.24. Violante-Picon, Isabel. 'Pensée de la langue e langue poétique. L'appropriation de la langue à partir du "De vulgari eloquentia"'.  Ecriture et modes de pensée au Moyen Age. Etudes rassemblées par D. Boutet et L. Harf–Lancner.  Paris, Presses de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure. Pp. 105-114.
Discusses BL in the light of Pezard (LbIV).

H.25. Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca. Venezia: Hertz, 1686. Constantly rept. and revised.
Uses Tesoretto, ed. Ubaldini (B ), much as OED was to use EETS. See now OVI.

H.26. Witlin, Curt. 'Les traduccions catalanes medievales del "Tresor" de Brunetto Latini'. A scuola con Ser Brunetto. Ed. Maffia Scariati (Db.4), 167-176.


I. Art

This section is divided into materials associated with Il tesoretto illuminations, Li Livres dou Tresor illuminations, the Bargello portrait by Giotto of BL and DA and other portraits, and DC illuminations of BL and DA, Inferno XV. Of value to the Tesoretto, Tesoro illluminations are studies of Francesco da Barberino's miniatures to his writings (LaII); illuminations to DA, DC, such as Peter Brieger, Millard Meiss and Charles Singleton, Illuminated Manuscripts of the 'DC', Princeton: University Press, 1969 (Id), and G. Biagi, La 'DC' nella figurazione artistica e nel secolare comento, Torino: UTET, 1924, 3 vols (LbIIIA ). See also John V. Fleming, The 'Roman de la Rose': A Study in Allegory and Iconography, and Pierre Courcelle, 'La Consolation de Philosophie' dans la tradition littéraire, Paris: Etudes Augustiennes, 1967, which give plates demonstrating the iconography of related texts. Bolton Holloway (B ) in her art appendix, pp. 151-61, gives Tesoretto illuminations and in Twice-Told Tales (E ) gives Tesoro ones; likewise Helene Wieruszowski (C.71) gives MSS illuminations for Tesoro, following p. 190, from Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale, II.VIII.36 and Biblioteca Laurenziana. Plut.42.19, fols 62, 72, and 12, the last showing BL teaching students (BbII). Chabaille (C.39) gives engravings of Li Livres dou Tresor's cosmographical illuminations. Consult also Stefano Bottari, 'Per la cultura di Oderisi da Gubbio e di Franco Bolognese' in Dante e Bologna nei tempi di Dante, Bologna: Carducci, 1967, pp. 54-59; and Skinner (F). While Douglas P. Lackey, 'Giotto's Mirror', Studi danteschi, 66 (2001), pp. 243-253, does not mention BL, he ably shows influence on Giotto's Arena Chapel Virtues and Vices in grisaille as from Cicero, and notes Francesco da Barberino's comments on these, 1308. We should also look, in this continuum, from Alfonso el Sabio, Las Cantigas de Santa Maria, Brunetto Latino, Li Livres dou Tresor and Il Tesoro, Dante Alighieri, Commedia, at Convenevole da Prato, Biblioteca Nazionale, Banco Rari 38, MS produced for King Robert d'Angiò. BL associated with an earlier Convenovole da Prato, likely the father. Likewise, Ser Francesco da Barberino (LaII) is associated with the production of Dante manuscripts as well as of his own, Christopher de Hamel, A History of Illuminated Manuscripts, Oxford: Phaidon, 1986, pp. 143-144.

On the Arnolfo di Cambio statue of Carlo d'Angiò, etc., see Valerio Mariani, Arnolfo di Cambio, Roma: Tumminelli, 1943, Arnolfo e il gotico italiano, Napoli, 1967; Angiola Maria Romanini, Arnolfo di Cambio e lo 'stil novo' del gotico italiano, Milano: Casa Editrice Ceschina, 1969; Arnolfo alle origini del Rinascimento fiorentino, Firenze: Polistampa, 2005; La Toscana di Arnolfo: Storia, arte, architettura, urbanistica, paesaggi, ed. Italo Moretti, Cinzia Nenci, Giuliano Into, 2003.

Ia. Il tesoretto and Tesoro Illuminations

Ia.1. °Campbell, C. Jean. The Commonwealth of Nature: Art and Poetic Community in the Age of Dante. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008.
Intensely studies Brunetto Latino Tesoretto and Tesoro manuscript illuminations and texts.

Ia.2. °Ciardi Duprè Dal Poggetto, Maria Grazia. 'Nuove ipotesi di lavoro scaturite dal rapporto testo-immagine nel 'Tesoretto' di Brunetto Latini. Rivista di Storia della Miniature, 1-2 (1996-1997). Atti del IV Congresso di Storia della Miniatura 'Il codice miniato laico: rapporto tra testo e immagine. Cortona: Sala dei Convegni di Sant'Agostino, 12-14 novembre 1992. Firenze: Centro Di, 1996-97. Società internazionale di studi di storia della miniatura. Pp. 89-98.

Ia.3. Ciccuto, Marcello. 'Premesso al "Tesoretto" di Brunetto Latini', Il restauro dell''Intelligenza' e altri studi dugenteschi, Pisa, 1985, pp. 141-58.
Good on sources, especially Alanus de Lille. Also discusses Inf. XV, as a sort of 'Lectura Dantis'.

Ia.4. Ciccuto, Marcello. 'Tradizione illustrative attorno a "Tresor" e "Tesoretto"'. A scuola con Ser Brunetto, ed. Maffia Scariati (Db.4.), 3-12.

Ia.5. Degenhart, Bernard & Annegrit Schmitt. Corpus der italienischen Zeichnungen 1300-1450. Berlin: Mann, 1968. Vols. I:1, pp. 40-42; I:3, plates 34b-37.
Discusses illuminations to Bibl. Laurenziana, Strozziano 146 and reproduces them. Shows strong parallel to illuminations of Francesco da Barberino, Documenti d'amore. One scene in the latter, of people pulling together on a rope, interprets Tesoretto, lines 170-79. For this see I:1, 32-24, reproducing Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica, Barb. lat 4076, fols 55- 66. See also AgI , La1, on Francesco da Barberino.

*Ia.6. Monti Nicali, Clelia. Le illustrazioni per le opere di Brunetto Latini del Maestro del Biadaiolo, Tesi di Perfezionamento in Storia dell'arte medievale e moderna, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Firenze, 1974.

[For website on Terence and its illuminated manuscripts, similar to BL's Tesoretto, DA's Commedia, including gestures of speakers, see http://www.umilta.net/terence.html]

Ib. Li Livres dou Tresor Illuminations

Ib.1. Bradley, John Williams. A Dictionary of Miniatures, Illuminators, Calligraphers and Copyists. London: Quaritch, 1887-89. 3 vols. III, pp. 98-99.
Notes MS of Tresor (BbI.76) in which are found arms of Philippe de Bourgogne, illuminated by Jehan le Prestinien who removed the portrait and coat of arms of the King of England from 'li livre d Tresor' and placed there the arms of the Duke and Duchess of Burgundy. Bradley notes that the former arms were more likely those of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester.

Ib.2. °Clark, Willene B. 'Twelfth and Thirteenth-Century Latin Sermons and the Latin Bestiary'. Compar(a)ison 1 (1996, 5-19.

Ib.3. Constantinowa, Alexandra. 'Li Tresors of BL'. Art Bulletin 19 (1937), 203-19.
Discusses magnificent illuminations of Picard St Petersburg MS (Bb1.41).

Ib.4. Gathercole, Patricia M. 'Illuminations of the Manuscripts of BL'. It 43 (1966), 345-52.
Fine descriptions of illuminations and marginalia of MSS. Discusses MSS BN fr. 191, 566, 567, 570, 571, 573, 726, 1110, 1113, 9142, 12581, 19090 and nouv. acq. 6591. She notes that Langlois (G) reproduces illumination of BL and patron from Paris, BN, fr. 726, fol. 112 (BbI.57).

Ib.5. Lackey, Douglas P. 'Giotto's Mirror'. Studi Danteschi 66 (2001), 243-253.
Cardinal virtue of Prudence in Scrovegni Chapel from Cicero by way of BL.

Ib.6. °Li Livres dou Tresor. Facsimile of St Petersburg MS Fr. Ev.III. N° 4. (BbI. 41). Barcelona: Moleiro, 2000. 2 vols.

Ib.6.1. °Kisseleva, L.I. 'Estudios paleografico y codicologico sobre el "Libro del Tesoro" de Brunetto Latini', 'Codicological and paleographic study of "Li Livres dou Tresor" by Brunetto Latini'. Pp. 15-82.

Ib.6.2. °Mokretsova, I.P. 'Peculiaridades artisticas e iconograficas del manoscrito di San Petersburgo', 'Artistic and iconographical traits of the St Petersburg MS'. Pp. 83-136.

Ib.6.3. °Clark, Willene E. 'Las capitulas sobre animales en el "Libro del Tesoro" de San Petersburgo', 'The animal chapters in the Saint Petersburg "Li Livres dou Tresor"'. Pp. 137-170.

Ib.6.4. °Mokretsova, I.P., C.Z. Bykova, V.N. Kireyeva. 'Investigación técnica y restauración del manuscrito', 'Techical research and manuscript restoration'. Pp. 171-187.

Ib.7. Pächt, Otto and J.J Alexander. Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973.
II. n. 54, on BbI.22.

Ib.8. Roux, Brigitte. 'Les Auteurs du "Tresor"'. A scuola con Ser Brunetto, ed. Maffia Scariati (Db.4.), 13-34.

Ib.9/AgII.25. Roux, Brigitte. L'iconographie du Livre dou Tresor: Diversité des cycles


Ib.10/AgII.26. °Roux, Brigitte. Mondes en Miniatures: L'iconographie du Libre dou Tresor de Brunetto Latini. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2009.

    Ib.10.Rev. Bolton Holloway, Julia. Speculum. Forthcoming.

Ib.11/AgII.28. °Stones, Alison. The Illustrations of the Tresor to c. 1320

Ib.11. Zinelli, Fabio. 'Tradizione 'mediterranea' e tradizione italiana del "Livre dou Tresor"'. A scuola con Ser Brunetto, ed. Maffia Scariati (Db.4.), 35-92.

Ic. Giotto portrait


F. Villani (F & Ic) discusses the Giotto portrait of DA and BL. Barlow (E), p. 431, notes Vasari on this portrait. Ortolan (M) and Denis (G) also discuss this portrait in the Bargello by Giotto, Ortolan mentioning that Dante's tomb at Ravenna has BL in a medallion, also Virgil. Davidsohn's Italian edition (F), II, pl. 24, gives a later portrait of BL, one of a series done in the Renaissance of famous Florentines. More work needs to be done on Franco da Bologna and Oderisi da Gubbio, contemporary illuminators to BL and DA (whom DA mentions, Purg. X), for the light they could throw on BL book production. Both were associated with Bologna. Could the illuminations of MSS in Madrid be theirs?

Ic.1. D'Ancona, Alessandro. 'Il rittratto giottescho'. Scritti dantesci. Firenze: Sansoni, n.d. Pp. 552-58.
Discusses controversy over Seymour Kirkup's restoration of Bargello fresco; see also the Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ed. Frederick Kenyon, New York: Macmillan, 1899, I, p. 440.

Ic.2. Gombrich, E.H. 'Giotto's Portrait of Dante?' Burlington Magazine 121 (1979), 471-483.
Questions tradition.

Ic.3. Holbrook, Richard. Portraits of Dante from Giotto to Raffael: A Critical Study with a Concise Iconography. London: Warner, 1911.
Good, full account. Bargello fresco painted, 1336, when Fidesmini da Verano was podestà, therefore not contemporary with BL.

Ic.4. Sirén, Osvald. Giotto and Some of his Followers. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1917.
Discusses Giotto portrait of DA and BL, p. 29.

Ic.5. Vasari, Giorgio. 'Giotto' In Vite de' artefici: prose scelte. Milano; Sonzagno, 1884. P. 114. Trans. A.B. Hinds, as The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects. London: Dent, 1900. Temple Classics.
Tells of Giotto painting portraits of DA, Corso Donati and himself in Bargello Maddalena Chapel.

Ic.6. °Villani, Filippo. Le vite d'uomini illustri fiorentini. Ed. Gianmaria Mazzuchelli. Venezia: Pasquali; Accademia della Crusca, 1747.
Notes, p. lxxxi, that Giotto portrait was done with mirrors. The remains of Bargello painting are now said to be Last Judgment with DA and BL  in Paradise or of the comune. Notes, p. lxxxii, that Taddeo di Gaddo, Giotto's godchild, has portraits of Giotto, Dante and Guido Cavalcanti at Santa Croce.

However, the MSS incipit initials with their portraits, especially those dated in the thirteenth century and produced in BL workshops, are more likely to present a truer portrait of BL. I especially trust those in the Laurentian Strozziano 146 (Ba.1), illuminated in the same style as Francesco da Barberino's Documenti d'amore (LaII.MSS). FB was BL's student. See also Fornari (LbIV).


Id. Inferno XV miniatures

Id.1. °Brieger, Peter, Millard Meiss & Charles Singleton. Illuminated MSS of the 'DC'. Princeton: University Press, 1969. 2 vols.
Should be used with Biagi (LbIIIA) to study MSS iconography.

Id.2. Ginsberg, Warren. '"E chinando la mano a la sua faccia": A Note on Dante, BL and their Text'. Stanford Italian Review 1 (1985), 19-
Uses manuscript illuminations to explicate text.


J. Sources

These are divided into three sections: a. Classical and Patristic, b. Medieval and Arabic, c. Theme of Treasure. In the second a problem exists. A cluster of materials centres upon both the Roman de la Rose, which perhaps precedes BL in time, and upon the sonnet supposed to have been written by DA, 'Questa pulzeletta', which belongs in the section on Influences, specifically LbI. The reader is asked to refer to both these sections when researching either problem. For Roman de la Rose and Fiore materials see also the bibliographies of Neri (Da), pp. 43-44, and V. Biagi (LbI), pp. 61-72.

Good background works are Ernst R. Curtius, Europaïsche Literatur und lateinisches Mittelalter, Berne: Francke, 1948, trans., Williard R. Trask, as European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul; Princeton: University Press, Bollingen Series 36, 1953; C.S. Lewis, The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Cambridge: University Press, 1964.; E.K. Rand, Founders of the Middle Ages, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1928; Robert O. Payne, The Key of Remembrance: A Study of Chaucer's Poetics, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963, on intertextuality. See prefatory section to G on 12 C Neoplatonism. Also useful: Segre (C.77), p. 311; Carmody (C.63), pp. xxiii-xxxiiii, lvii-lxii; Carrer (C.26), p. xxii; Bertoni on Roman de la Rose in Tuscany (E), pp. 298-30; Paris (E), p. 104, noting BL's quotation from Tristan; Scherillo (E), p. 181; Cicero (F); Langlois (G); Marigo on Cicero and Isidore (G); Gentili on Aristotle translated by Alderotto (Ke).

Ja. Classical and Patristic Sources

Ja.1. °Aristotle. The Basic Works. Ed. & trans. Richard McKeon. New York: Randam House, 1941.
See also section on Taddeo di Alderotto, Ke.

Ja.2. °Aristotle. The Nicomachean Ethics. Ed. and trans, H. Rackham. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982. Loeb 73.
Christopher de Hamel, A History of Illuminated Manuscripts (Oxford: Phaidon, 1986), notes there are 2200 extant MSS of Aristotle, 1900 of Aquinas.

Studies of medieval Aristotle by way of Arabic texts translated into Latin and the vernaculars languages are placed in Jb.

Ja.3. °Boethius, Anicius, Manlius Severinus. The Consolation of Philosophy. Trans. Richard Green. Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1962.

Ja.4. Capella, Martianus. Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts. Ed. and trans. William H. Stahl, Richard Johnson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1971. 2 vols.

Ja.5. Carmody, Francis J. 'De Bestiis et aliis rebus and the Latin Physiologus'. Sp 13 (1938), 153-59.

Ja.6. °Carmody, Francis J. 'Latin Sources of BL's World History'. Sp 11 (1936) 359-70.

Ja.7. Carmody, Francis J. 'BL's Tresor: Latin Sources on Natural Sciences'. Sp 12 (1937), 356-66.
Discusses elements and virtues, meteorology, astronomy ad calendars, giving BL's sources, classical, Arabic and medieval.

Ja.8. °Cicero, Marcus Tullius. In Catilinam 1-IV. Trans. C. Macdonald. Cambridge, Mass.; Harvard University Press, 1949. Loeb Classics 324.

Ja.9. °Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De inventione. Trans. H.M. Hubbell. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1949. Loeb Classics 386.

Ja.10. Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Laelius de amicitia. Ed. P. Fedeli. Firenze: Mondadori, 1971.
Tesoretto and, especially, Favolello discuss Ciceronian friendship.

Ja.11. °Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Orationes: Pro Milone, Pro Marcello, Pro Ligario, Pro rege Deiotati: Philippicae I-XIV. Ed. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1901, 1918.

Ja.12. °[Pseudo-Cicero]. Rhetorica ad Herennium. Trans. Henry Caplan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1954. Loeb Classics 403.
See
Bibliotheca Augustana:
http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lsante01/AdHerennium/rhe_h000.html

Ja.13. °Comparetti, Domenico. Virgilio nel medio evo. Firenze: Seeber, 1896. I.292-93.

Ja.14. Cura Curà, Giulio. 'A proposito di BL volgarizzatore: osservazioni sulla "Pro Marcello"'. La Parola del testo 1 (2002), 27-52.
Studies BL's 'Pro Marcello'.

Ja.15. Dares Phrygius. De excidio Troiae historia. Ed. Ferdinand Meister. Leipzig: Teubner, 1872. BSGRT.

Ja.16. Dictys Cretensis. Ephemerides belli Troiani libri. Ed, Werner Eisenhut. Leipzig: Teubner, 1958. BSGRT.

Ja.17. I fatti dei Romani: Saggio di edizione critica di un volgarizzamento fiorentino del Duecento. A cura di Sergio Marroni. Roma: Viella, 2004.
Based on two manuscripts with date of 1313 of the French Fet des Romains into Italian. Brunetto Latini had already incorporated some of this material into his writings in French and in Italian, particularly because of Catiline's presence in Fiesole. See Meyer (AbI29).

*Ja.18. Fet des Romains. Ed. L.F. Flutre et K. Sneyders de Vogel. Paris-Groningue, 1938.
Critical edition of vernacular compilation in French from Sallust, Suetonius and Lucan. Editors date the French work at the beginning of the Ducento.

       Ja.18.MS1. Riccardiana MS 1550 'Cronaca da Tiberio Imp. fino all'anno 1285. Includes Tesoro Sicilian Vespers account.
      
       Ja.18.MS2. Riccardiana MS 1938. Vita de' Papi e degli Imperatori di Martino Polono tradotta in volgare e continuata fino a  
       Clemente V'. Marginal comments adding Sicilian Vespers, etc.

*Ja.19. Flutre, L.F. 'Li Faits des Romains' dans la litteratures française et italienne di XIIIe au XVIe siècle. Paris: Hachette, 1932.

*Ja.20. Gentili, Sonia. L'uomo aristotelico alle origini della letteratura italiana. Preface, Peter Dronke. Roma: Carocci-La Sapienza, 2005.

Ja.21. Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus). Carmina. Ed. F. Vollmer. Leipzig: Teubner, 1917. BSGRT.

Ja.22. Isidore of Seville. Etymologiarum libri XX. Ed. W,M. Lindsay. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911.
See
Biblioteca Augustana
: http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost07/Isidorus/isi_intr.html

Ja.23. Jaeger, Werner. Humanism and Theology. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1943. Aquinas Lecture, 1943. Pp. 34, 35, 78, 79.

Ja.24. °Jaeger, Werner. Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture. Trans. Gilbert Highet. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965-1986. 3 vols.

Ja.25. °Livy. Trans. B.O. Foster, F.G. Moore, Evan T. Sage, A.C. Schlesinger. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1919-51. Loeb Classics. 14 vols.

Ja.27. °Lucan. The Civil War (Pharsalia). Trans. J.D. Duff. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1928. Loeb Classics 220.

Ja.25. Macrobius. Commentary on the Dream of Scipio. Ed. and trans. W.H. Stahl. New York: Columbia University Press, 1952.
However, BL seems to use Arabic sources rather than Classico-Christian ones, unlike Macrobius. See Marchesi, Jb.

Ja.26. Marchesi, Concetto. 'Le reazioni trecentesche volgari del De Amicitia di Cicerone secondo i codici fiorentini'. GSLI 43 (1903), 312-29.
MSS studies. No ascription to BL. Important, however, for context.

Ja.27. °Meyer, Paul. 'Les premières compilations françaises d'histoire ancienne'. R 14 (1885), 23-26.
Discusses Faits des Romains, French version of Sallust which BL used and may have written. Text of Julius Caesar's speech is identical in Faits des Romains, BN fr. 20063, fol. 10, Tresor, Chabaille, pp. 505-6. See BbI.29-30.

Ja.28. Nennius. Historia Brittonum. In Six Old English Chronicles. Ed. John A. Giles, trans. W. Gunn. London: Bell, 1885.

Ja.29. Novati, Francesco. L'influsso del pensiero latino sopra la civiltà italiana del Medio Evo. Milano: Hoepli, 1899.

Ja.30. *Orosius. Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII. Ed. C. Zangemeister. Leipzig: Teubner, 1889. BSGRT.

*Ja.31. Osmond, Patricia J. 'Catiline in Fiesole and Florence. The After-life of a Roman Conspirator'. International Journal of the Classical Tradition 7 (2000), 3-38.

Ja.32. °Panofsky, Erwin. Early Netherlandish Painting: Its Origins and Character. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.

Ja.33. Panofsky, Erwin. 'Renaissance and Renascences', Kenyon Review 6 (1944).

Ja.34. °Panofsky, Erwin. Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.
Panofsky demonstrates that the medieval period say itself as a living continuum of the classical past, while the Renaissance considered it dead and studied it as antiquarians.

Ja.35. °Papini, Gianni A. 'Cicéron en toscane au XIIIe siècle: la traduction des Catilinaires'. Etudes de lettres 4 (1981), 3-21.

*Ja.36. Papini, Gianni A. 'I "Fatti dei Romani". Per la storia della traduzione manoscritta.' Studi di filologia italiana 31 (1973), 97-155.

*Ja.37. Parodi, Ernesto Giacomo. 'Le storie di Cesare nella letteratura italiane dei primi secoli'. Studi di filologia romanza 11 (1889), 237-250.

Ja.38. Physiologus latinus: Editions préliminaires. Versio B. Ed. Francis J. Carmody. Paris: Droz, 1939.

Ja.39. Physiologus latinus versio Y. Ed. Francis J. Carmody. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1941. UCPMP 12, no 7.

*Ja.40. Picone, Michelangelo. 'La ricezione dell'antico nell'Italia del Due e Trecento'. Nuova Secondaria 18.6 (2001), 68-74.

Ja.41. Pliny. Naturalis historiae libri XXXVII. Ed. C. Mayhoff. Leipzig: Teubner, 1892-1909. 5 vls. BSGRT.

Ja.42. Sallust. Catilinaria. Ed. and trans. J.C. Rolfe. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1921. Loeb Classics 116.
See *G. Orti, article on BL, Cicero, Sallust, Catiline, in Poligrafo 3 (1837), cited, Mattalía (E), p. 43. Also Faits des Romains/Fatti dei Romani.

Ja.43. *Segre, Cesare. 'Jean de Meun e Bono Giamboni traduttori di Vegezio. Saggio sui volgarizzamento in Francia e in Italia'. Lingua, stile e sociteà. Studi sulla storia della prosa italiana. Milano: Feltrinelli, 1963.

Ja.44. Seneca. Moral Essays. Trans. John W. Basore. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1928-35. Loeb Classics 214, 245, 310.

Ja.45. °Schück, L. 'Dantes Classische Studien und BL'. Neue Jahrbuch für Philologie und Paedagogik. 2nd ser., 92 (1865), 244-90.
Discusses Tresor's use of Frederic II on falconry, Pliny, Aristotle, Cicero, etc. Interesting on Ulysses, pp. 274-78, though fails to note Tesoretto as source for Dante's Pillars of Hercules. See esp. pp. 281-90.

Ja.46. *Solini, C. Iulii. Collectanea rerum memorabilium. Ed. Th. Mommsen. Berlin: Nicolai, 1865.
Cited, Carmody (B), Toynbee (Ja).

Ja.47. Spargo, John Webster. Virgil the Necromancer. Studies in Virgilian Legends. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1934.
Discusses not only Virgil but also role of medieval Ovid, relevant to Tesoretto, Better on iconography than Comparetti (Ja).

*Ja.48. Staccioli, G. 'Sul ms Hamilton 67 di Berloino e sul volgarizzamento della "IV Catilinaria" in esso contenuto'. Studi filologia italiana 42 (1984), 27-58.

Ja.49. Toynbee, Paget. 'BL's Obligations to Solinus'. R 23 (1894), 62-77.
Critical of poor translation by BL of Solinus.

Ja.50. Valerio Massimo. De' fatti e detto degni di memoria della città di Roma e delle strane genti. Testo di lingua del secolo XIV. A cura di Roberto de Visiani. Bologna: Romagnoli, 1867. 2 vols.

Jb. Medieval and Arabic Sources

Medieval Aristotle and Albertanus of Brescia, De arte loquendi et tacendi and Liber consolatione et consilii (Tale of Prudence and Melibee) are important sources, as they would be for Chaucer. See also Neri (Da) and LaII for Roman de la Rose materials.

Jb.1. Alanus de Insulis. Liber de planctu Naturae. PL cols. 431-82.
See
Bibliotheca Augustana
: http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost12/Alanus/ala_intr.html

Jb.2. Alanus de Insulis. Anticlaudianus or the Good and Perfect Man. Trans. James J. Sheridan. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1977.

Jb.3. Albertanus da Brescia. Bibliotheca Augustana: http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost13/Albertanus/alb_intr.html
Albertanus of Brescia Resource Site: http://freespace.virgin.net/angus.graham/Albertano.htm

*Jb.4. Alfraganus. Il trattato della Spera volgarizzato da Zucchero Bencivenni. Edizione critica a cura di Gabriella Ronchi. Firenze: Presso l'Accademia della Crusca, 1999.
Cited, Divizia (Jb).

Jb.5. Alfraganus. Il libro dell'Aggregazione delle stelle': secondo il codice Mediceo Laurenziano Pl. 29, cod. 9, contemporaneo di Dante. Ed. Romeo Campani. Città di Castello: Lapi, 1910. Collezione di Opuscoli Danteschi Inedito or Rari. A cura di G.L. Passerini, 89-90.
Cited, Dillay, p. 386 (Jb), noting BL's use of Al-Farghani/Alfraganus, Corti (LaI). I checked this MS and others. I do not believe this is MS BL used.

Alfraganus and other astronomical MSS are:

Jb.5.MS1. Firenze, Laur. Plut. 29.9. Scholastic hand, no figures in MS. Mentions 'Arind'.

Jb.5.MS2. Paris, B.N. lat. 6556. Exquisite MS in Bolognan libraria with figures. Carmody likely errs in saying this is Latin translation of Tresor; it could be copy of Latin original from which BL translated. MS cites 'Asaph ebreum' in rubrics on fol. 2v. Omits 'Arin'. Should be compared with Tesoro, Firenze, B.N., II.VIII.36, in Bolognan libraria, dated 1286.

Jb.5.MS3. Madrid, B.N. 8989. Contains Euclid, Alfraganus, Roger Bacon, university book, with annotation. Fine figures.

Jb.5.MS4. Berne, Burgerbibliothek 393. Alfraganus in French verse with figures, diagrams.

Jb.5.MS5. Firenze, Riccardian 2262. Alfraganus of Zucchero Bencivenni. In Italian verse. Fine MS with diagrams. Paper MS.

Of the above BN lat. 6556 (Jb5.MS2) is closest to BL's text, rather than Laur. Plut. 29.9. BL does not mention Arin, though later Tresor MSS interpolate it.

Jb.6. °Alonso Alonso, Manuel. 'Biblioteca medievales de los Arzobispos de Toledo'. Razon y Fe (1941).
Lists MSS translated into Latin from Arabic, etc.

Jb.7. °Andreas Capellanus. The Art of Courtly Love. Trans. John Jay Parry. New York: Columbia University Press, 1941. Rpt. New York: Ungar, 1964.
Ignore translators' preface. Pietro Alighieri, Commentary to Commedia, cites text from his father's books. Therefore it is possible BL brought it from France to Italy. Bar-sur-Aube, where BL went on mercantile affair, is near Troyes, in Champagne, the region from which Guilaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, who influenced BL, also came. See
Bibliotheca Augustana:
http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost12/Capellanus/cap_intr.html

Jb.8. Asín Palacios, Miguel. La escatologia musulmana en la 'DC'. 3rd ed. Madrid: Instituto Hispano-Arabo de Cultura, 1961. Pp. 381-87. Trans. Harold Sutherland, as Islam and the DC, London: Murray, 1926. PP. 252-54.
Suggests BL brought Islamic knowledge, including Arabic bestiaries, from Spain to Florence and hence to DA.

Jb.9. Barbi, Michele. 'D'un antico codice pisano-lucchese di trattati morali'. La nuova filologia e l'edizione dei nostri scrittori da Dante al Manzoni. Firenze: Sansoni, 1938. Pp. 253-54. Formerly published in Raccolta di studi critici dedicato ad Alessandro D'Ancona festeggiandosi il 40° anniversario del suo insegnamento. Firenze: Barbera, 1901. Pp. 241-59.
Contains Martin of Braga's Formula vitae honestae, Albertanus of Brescia, sources for BL Tresor/Tesoro. Discusses MSS and editions.

Jb.10. °Benedetto, Luigi Foscolo. 'Influssi del "Roman de la Rose" sulla letteratura italiana'. Beihefte zur ZRP 20 (1909), 91-100.
Notes (pp. 98-102) parallel passages in Roman de la Rose, I, II, and Tesoretto.

Jb.11. °Benedetto, Luigi Foscolo. 'Per la cronologia del Roman de la Rose'. Atti della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino 44 (1909), 471-87.

*Jb.12. Bertolini, L. 'I volgarizzamenti italiani degli apocrifi (secc. XIII-XV): un sondaggio'. Seneca: una vicenda testuale. A cura di T. De Roberti e G. Resta. Firenze: Mandragora, 2004. Pp. 357-64.
Concerning Martin of Braga, Formula vitae honestae. Cited, Divizia (Jb).

Jb.13. Billanovich, Giuseppe, Maria Prandi, Claudio Scarpati. 'Lo "Speculum" di Vincenzo di Beauvais et la letteratura italiana dell'età gotica'. Italia medievale e umanistica XIX (1976), 89-170.
In this joint study, Billanovich studies 'Le tre strade: trovatori, classici, enciclopedie', Scarpati, 'Vincenzo di Beauvais e la letteratura italiana de Trecento', Prandi, 'Vincenzo di Beauvais e Francesco da Barberino', Scarpati, 'Francesco da Barberino e Guglielmo di Conches'. See also G. Encyclopedism; LaII. Francesco da Barberino.

Jb.14. °Boccassini, Daniela. Il volo della mente: Falconeria e Sofia nel mondo mediterraneo: Islam, Federico II, Dante. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2003.

Jb.15. °Cerulli, Enrico. Il 'Libro della Scala': La questione delle fonti arabo-spagnole della DC. Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1949.
An intriguing study of the Arabic parallel to the Commedia with texts and illuminations. The protagonist poet meets Christians and Muslims, a lion, a wolf and a jaguar, sees sodomites punished in Islamic hell, as are teachers who turn against what they say. This work was widely disseminated in Europe.

Jb.16. °Cerulli, Enrico. Nuove ricerche sul 'Libro della Scala' e la conoscenza dell'Islam in Occidente. Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1972.
Pp. 11-18 on Alfonso X and BL and the text.

Jb.17. D'Agostino, Alfonso. 'Nuova proposta per le fonti del Fiore e vita dei filosofi ed altri savi ed imperadori'. MedR 4 (1977), 35-52.
Source, Vincent de Beauvais, Speculum historiale. See B76.

*Jb.18. D'Alverny, M.-T. 'Remarques sur la tradition manuscrite de la Summum Alexandrinorum'. Archives d'histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen-Age 49 (1982), 265-72.
Cited, Gentili.

*Jb.19. D'Alverny, M.-T. 'Les traductions à deux interprètes, d'arabe en langue vernaculaire et de langue vernaculaire en latin'. Traduction et traducteurs ayu Moyen Age. Actes du Colloque international du CNRS, 26-28 mai 1986. Ed. G. Contamine. Paris: CNRS, 1989, pp. 193-106.

Jb.20. Dillay, Madeleine. 'Une source latine de BL'. Recueil de travaux offert à M. Clovis Brunel. Paris: Société de l'Ecole des Chartes, 1955. Pp. 366-86.
Discusses BL's source for astronomy, Alfraganus (Al-Ferghani), Almagest, incorrectly asserting that Plut. 29.9 is BL's source. See Jb5.

Jb.21. °Divizia, Paolo. 'La Formula vitae honestae, il Tresor e i rispettivi volgarizzamenti falsamente attribuiti a Bono Giamboni, 1. La critica.' La parola del testo, 11:2 (2007).
On Martin of Braga, Formula vitae honestae, and BL, Tresor/Tesoro.

Jb.
22. *Divizia, Paolo. Novità  per il volgarizzamento della Disciplina clericalis. Milano: Unicopli, 2006 or 2007;
Forthcoming, with semicritical edition of the volgarizzamento A of the Formula vitae honestae.

Jb.23. *Dunlop, D.M. 'The Arabic Tradition of the Summa Alexandrinorum'. Archives d'histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen-Age 49 (1982), 253-65.
Cited, Gentili (Ja).

Jb.24. °Dunlop, D.M. 'The Nicomachean Ethics in Arabic, Books 1-VI'. Oriens 15 (1962), 18-34.

Jb.25. La Escala de Mahoma. Ed. José Munoz Sendino. Madrid: Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, 1949.
Cited, Barrette/Baldwin (C.98)

Jb.26. °Ferreiro Alemparte, Jaime. 'Hermann el Alemán, traductor del siglo XIII en Toledo'. Hispania Sacra: Revista de Historia Ecclesiástica 35 (1983), 9-56.
Translator of Aristotle's Ethics BL uses in first French MSS of Li Livres du Tresor.

Jb.27. °Ferreiro Alemparte, Jaime. 'La leyenda de Serlo de Wilton aplicado a Sigerio de Brabant'. Revista de la Universidad Complutense 1-4 (183/1987), 99-105.

Jb.28. °Ferreiro Alemparte, Jaime. 'Recepión de las Eticas y de la Politica de Aristóteles en Las Siete Partidas del Rey Sabio'. Typescript.

Jb.29. I fatti dei Romani: Saggio di edizione critica di un volgarizzamento fiorentino del Duecento. A cura di Sergio Marroni. Roma: Viella, 2004.
Based on two manuscripts with date of 1313 of the French Fet des Romains into Italian. Brunetto Latini had already incorporated some of this material into his writings in French and in Italian, particularly because of Catiline's presence in Fiesole. See Meyer (AbI29).

Jb.30. Fenzi, Enrico. 'Brunetto Latini, ovvero il fondamento politico dell'arte della parola e il potere dell'intellettuale'. A scuola con Ser Brunetto, ed. Maffia Scariati (Db.4), 323-369.
Concentrates on Spanish/Arabic influence.

Jb.31. Frederick II, Emperor of Germany. The Art of Falconry, being the 'De arte venandi cum avibus' of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen. Trans. and ed. Casey A. Wood and F. Marjorie Fyfe. London: Oxford University Press, 1943.
See also Bibliotheca Augustana: http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost13/FridericusII/fri_intr.html

Jb.32. °Garver, Milton. 'Some Supplementary Italian Bestiary Chapters'. Romanic Review 11 (1920), 308-27.
Notes BL, p. 310. Collates bestiary section.

Jb.33. °Graham, Angus. 'Albertanus of Brescia. A preliminary census of vernacular manuscripts'. Studi medievali. A cura del Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Altomedioevo, Spoleto 3e serie, 41.2 (2000), 891-924.

Jb.34. °Graham, Angus. 'Albertanus of Brescia: A supplementary census of Latin manuscripts'. Studi medievali. A cura del Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Altomedioevo, Spoleto 3e serie, 41.1 (2000), 429-445.

Jb.35. °Graham, Angus. 'Who Read Albertanus? Insight from the manuscript transmission'. Albertano da Brescia: Alle origini del Razionalismo economico, dell'Umanismo civile, dela Grande Europea. A cura di Franco Spinelli. Brescia: Grafo, 1996. Pp. 69-82.

Jb.36. °Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun. Le Roman de la Rose. Ed. Félix Lecoy. Paris: Honoré Champion, 1965-70. Classiques français du Moyen Âge 92, 95, 98.
A substantial influence on Tesoretto. See also Ke, Il Fiore.

Jb.37. Jourdain, M. Récherches critiques sur l'âge et l'origine des traductiones latines d'Aristote et sur des commentaires grecs ou arabes employés par les docteurs scholastiques. Paris: Fantin, 1819.

Jb.38. Jung, Marc-René. 'La morale d'Aristote: l'utiliation du "Livre du Tresor" dans le "Tresor de Sapience". A scuola con Ser Brunetto, ed. Maffia Scariati (Db.4.), 93-117.

Jb.39. Lévi-Provençal, E. La Civilisation arabe in Espagne. Paris: Maisonneuve, 1961.

Jb.40. Marbod, Bishop of Rennes. Liber lapidum seu de gemma. Ed. Johannes Bechman. Göttingen: Dieterich, 1799.
Source for BL's lapidary. See also Alfonso el Sabio, Ka. (It would be useful to know if Abbaye de St.-Vaast, Arras, had a copy.)

Jb.41. Marchesi, Concetto. 'Il Compendio volgare dell'Etica aristotelica e le fonti del VI libro del Tresor'. GSLI 42 (1903), 1-74.
Discusses Tesoro MSS, listing almost as many as does Carla Mascheroni (BgIII). But see Ke, Taddeo di Alderotto, for problem with this article.

Jb.42. Marchesi, Concetto. 'L'Etica Nicomachea' nella tradizione latina medievale: documenti ed appunti. Messina: Trimarchi, 1904.
Both the above are studies of Aristotle's Ethics in Tresor, stating that BL used the 'Compendium Alessandrino-Arabo e la sua tradizione volgare', the Latin MS Laurentian Library, Gaddiano 87 inf. 41. Notes BL brought Nicomachean Ethics by Spanish/Arabic influence to France and Tuscany, influencing DA. However Gaddiano 87 inf. 41 is actually dated 1313, not 1243, leading astray Fiorenzo Forti, 'Il limbo dantesco e i megalopsicoi dell' 'Etica Nicomachea', Fra le carte dei Poeti, Milano: Ricciardi, 1965, pp. 20-21; Enrico Berti, Enciclopedia dantesca, II.756-758; °Maria Corti, Dante a una nuova crocevia, Firenze: Sansoni, 1982, La felicità mentale: nuove prospettive per Cavalcanti e Dante, pp. 94-109, 96, Torino: Einaudi, 1983, and LaI1.

Jb.43. Martini Episcopi Bracarensis Opera Omnia. Formula vitae honestae. Ed. Claude W. Barlow. Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome, 12. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950. Electronic edition prepared by Dr Angus Graham: http://www.intratext.com/X/LAT0431.HTM
Major BL source. See Divizia (Jb).

*Jb.44. McCulloch, Florence. Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries. Chapel Hill: UNCSRLL 33, 1960.

          Jb.44. °The Meeting of Two Worlds: Cultural Exchange between East and West during the Period of the Crusades. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, 1986.

*Jb.46. Menocal, M.R. The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987.
Third chapter on 'Italy, Dante, and the Anxieties of Influence', pp. 115-35.


Jb.47. Peters, Edward. Aristotle and the Arabs. New York: University Press, 1968.
Notes Job of Edessa's Book of Treasures, A.D. 814. BL's title is Arabic. Close ties with Greek medical tradition. One made philosophy with a master. Encyclopedism. See Jb, Ka.

Jb.48. Petrus Alfonsi. 'Dialogus Petri cognomento Alphonsi, ex Judaeo Christiani et Moysi Judaei'. PL 157, cols. 537-672.
BL cites Petrus Alfonsi, early 12 C Jewish convert to Christianity, trained in Arabic universities in Spain, who wrote a theological justification of conversion between former self, Moses, and new self, Peter, making use of Arabic science and Hebrew theology to do so. Petrus discusses 'Aren civitas' from Alfraganus. BL texts omit 'Arin'.

Jb.49. Petrus Alfonsi. Disciplina Clericalis. http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/alfonsi.disciplina.html

*Jb.50. Powers, James M. Albertanus of Brescia: The Pursuit of Happiness in the Early Thirteenth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.

Jb.51. Rossi, Luciano. 'Messer Burnetto e la "Rose."' A scuola con Ser Brunetto, ed. Maffia Scariati (Db.4.), 119-145.
Discusses contemporaneity of Rose II and Tesoretto and figure of Carlo d'Angiò.

Jb.52. *Rossi, Luciano 'La tradizione allegorica dall'opera di Alain de Lille, dal "Tesoretto" al "Roman della Rose"'. Modelli e antimodelli della "Commedia " di Dante.' Ed. Michelangelo Picone. Letture Classensi 37 (2007).

Jb.53. Ruggieri, Jole. 'Uno sconosciuto frammento del 'Roman de la Rose'. AR 14:3, pp. 417 ff.
Notes Modena fragment given by Giulio Bertoni (who had been given it by Debenedetti), gives transcription. See BbI.84, BgI, Kf.

*Jb.54. Selmi, F. Dei trattati morali di Albertano da Brescia volgarizzamento inedito fatto nel 1268 da Andrea da Grosseto. Bologna: Commissione per i testi di lingua, 1873.
Cited, Bartuschat (F). See Bf.MS1,2.

Jb.55. Sepúlveda, Germán. Influencia del Islam en la 'DC'. Santiago de Chile: Insituto Chileno-Arabe de Cultura, 1965.
Excellent discussion noting dual influence through Sicily and Spain. Observes that BL's writings are full of Arabic materials. Discusses Scala parallel.

Jb.56. Southern, R.W. [Sir Richard Southern]. 'Dante and Islam'. In Relations between East and West in the Middle Ages. Ed. Derek Baker. Edinburgh: University Press, 1973. Pp. 133-45.
Suggests, p. 140, that DA's knowledge of Islam was acquired through BL's visit to Alfonso el Sabio's court.

Jb.57. °Southern, R.W. Robert Grosseteste: The Growth of an English Mind in Medieval Europe. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.
Places Grosseteste's translation of Aristotle later than did previous scholars. BL's sources Herman the German and Taddeo di Alderotto, not Grosseteste.

Jb.58. °Toynbee, Paget. 'Dante's Obligation to Alfraganus in VN and Convivio'. R 24 (1895), 413-32.
Cites Tresor, pp. 417-31.

Jb.59. Vincent de Beauvais. Biblioteca mundi. Speculum quadruplex, naturale, doctrinale, morale, historiale. Duace: Beleri, 1624. 4 vols.
Important medieval encyclopedia.

Jb.60. °Vaux, Roland de. 'La première entrée d'Averrois chez les Latins'. Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques 21 (1933), 193-245.

Jb.61. [Pseudo] William of Conches. Moralium dogma philosophorum. www.thelatinlibrary.com/wmconchesdogma.html

Jb.62. Zingarelli, Nicola. 'L'allegoria del Roman de la Rose'. In Studi in onore di F. Torraca. Naples: Perella, 1912.

Jc. Theme of Treasure

Testa (Da), p. 84, is good on bibliographical materials in this area, a major BL theme. Notes that Maggini once suspected authenticity of Tesauro letter, then reversed himself. Carmody (B.63) prints letter about Tesauro of Pavia and Vallombrosa, pp. xiv-xv. See Bolton Holloway (B.85), pp. xx-xxi, and Scherillo (E), pp. 128-29. Dante, Par. X, 108, calls Peter Lombard's Sentences, Tesoro. Asín Palacios (Jb), p. 384, notes Muslim 'Treasures'. See also Peters (Jb) on Job of Edessa's Book of Treasures, A.D. 814. Similarly titled works, Arnold of Villanova, Thesaurus Thesaurum, Sordello, Thesaurus Thesaurum, Alfonso el Sabio, Tesoro, Pirre de Corbiac, Tresor. While Dante in his 'Letter to Can Grande' and Pietro Alighieri, Dante's son, in his commentary called the Commedia, 'thesaurus' (Verona, Bibl. Capitolare, CCCXIV, Letter to Can Grande, DCLV, Petri Alighieri).

Jc.1. De Lollis, Cesare. Vita e poesie di Sordello di Goito. Halle: Niemeyer, 1896.
Discusses Sordello's Tesoro del Tesoro (Thesaurus Thesaurum), work on polis, p. 93. Testa (Da) does not cite this edition but notes parallel, #16, p. 87.

Jc.2. Jeanroy, A & Giulio Bertoni. 'Le Tezaur de Peire de Corbian' [sic]. Annales du Midi 33 (1911), 289-308, 451-71.
Bettinelli (E), on authority of Quadrio, Chapter IV, accused BL of plagiarizing this poem. The poems are similar encyclopedic works, but Peire de Corbiac (as he is usually called) does not give his work the 'Chartrian' apparatus BL uses. Tezaur gives more historiographical material, including a very interesting Arthurian section. See Scherillo (E23) on plagiarism issue, pp. 127-29; Nannucci (C.24), I. 464-70, and Sundby (E), pp. 34-36, denied plagiarism, noting that Tezaur was written after 1270.

Jc.3. Sachs, C. Le Tresor de Pierre de Corbiac en vers provençaux avec des extraits du Tresor de Brunetto Latini. Brandenburg: Wiesike, 1859.
Notes 'Tresor' form employed because encyclopedic. Interesting preface discusses BL parallels and common sources.

Jc.4. Sánchez Pérez, José Augusto. 'Libro del tesoro, falsamente attributo a Alfonso el Sabio: una nueva copia encontrada en la Biblioteca de Palacio de Madrid'. RFE 19 (1932), 158-80.
Attribution to Alfonso X false. 15 C verse translation on the philosopher's stone, by Enrique de Villena, based on the Liber lucis of Johannes de Rupescissa. Despite title, Libro del tesoro does not derive from BL's Tresor.

Jc.5. Sedgewick, Henry Dwight. Dante. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1918.
Relates Inf. XV's 'come l'uom s'eterna' to Matt 29.16-21, concerning earthly and heavenly treasure, pp. 23-24.

Jc.6. Walsh, John K. & Alan Deyermond, 'Enrique de Villena come poeta y dramaturgo: bosquejo de una polémica frustrada'. Nueva Revista de Filologia Hispánica 28 (1979), 57-85.
Discusses Castilian version of Li Livres dou Tresor prepared for Alfonso X's son by Alfonso de Paredes and Pedro Gómez, pp- 75-76. Deyermond, in a letter, noted that sections of it are included in the Tratado de astrologia attributed to Enrique de Villena and in the Libro del Passo Honroso. See Jc, Ka, LcIV.

Jc.7. °Werge, Thomas. 'Dante's Tesoro: Inferno XV'. Romance Notes 7 (1955-56), 203-06.
Argues that DA accuses BL of worldly treasure-hoarding. See LbIIIB .

K. Contemporaries

This section covers Alfonso X el Sabio of Castile, Rustico de Filippo and Palamidesse, Fra Guidotto and Bono Giamboni, and Taddeo Alderotto. Of interest, too, for Alfonso X is the BL passage on the election of an emperor. Sundby/Mussafia (E), pp. 386-87, as well as the epistolary formulae with which to address Alfonso X in the Sommetta (Be, C.71). Cerulli (Jb) notes that Alfonso was responsible for translating Il Libro della Scala. For Rustico di Filippo and Palamidesse see also Bertoni (E) and the anthologies of early Italian literature; for Fra Guidotto da Bologna and Bono Giamboni, see Cecchi/Sapegno (E), pp. 604-12, 623, and Schiaffini (E), pp. 148-50. Asperti (F) is useful for the Angevin poetic milieu, involving Arras and Naples, in which BL's contemporaries participated with political tenzoni.

Ka. Alfonso el Sabio

Brunetto Latino on embassy to King Alfonso X el Sabio of Spain, with whom he exchanged books

The collection of MSS in the Escorial and in the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, of works written by Alfonso el Sabio, are useful. A magnificent Las Cantigas de Santa Maria is Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS Banco Rari 20, formerly II.1.2.3, likely a gift from Alfonso X to BL's comune. The Laurentian Library has two MSS of the Alfonsine Tales, Plut. 29.5 and Plut 29.7. See also Schirrmacher (M), and BbIII, Ja.27, Jb passim, Jc, LcIV.

The cultural openness to Islam through Jewish translators at the court of Alfonso X el Sabio of Castille would later encourage Dante to explore these avenues at the court of Can Grande della Scala in Verona, for which see D. Boccassini, Il volo della mente: Falconeria e Sofia (Jb); Imanuello Romano, L'Inferno e Il Paradiso, trans. Giorgio Battistoni (Firenze: Giuntina, 2000); Giorgio Battistoni, Dante, Verona e la Cultura Ebraica (Firenze: Giuntina, 2004); Sandra Debenedetti Stow, Dante e la mistica ebraica (Firenze: Giuntina, 2004).

Ka.1. *Aguadé Nieto, Santiago. Libro y cultura italianos en la Corona de Castilla durante la Edad Media. Alcalá de Hanares: Imprenta de la Universidad de Alcalá, 1991. P. 244.

Ka.2. d'Agostino, Alfonso. 'La Corte di Alfonso X di Castiglia'. Lo spazio letterario del Medioevo. 2 Il Medioevo volgare, La produzione del testo. Direttori Piero Boitani, Mario Mancini, Alberto Vàrvaro. Roma: Salerno Editrice, 2001. Pp. 735-785.
Notes earliest Spanish reference to 'bussola', also referred to by BL (T. Bertelli, BgIII). Discusses Geoffrey Eversley (Geoffrey of Vinsauf), influence on Alfonso (Crespo, F ).

Ka.3. Amador de los Ríos, José. Historia critica de la literatura española. Vols. III, IV. Madrid: Author, ptd. José Rodriguez (III), José Fernández Cancela (IV), 1863.
Useful accounts of both Alfonso el Sabio and BL's writings in Spain, including manuscript survey. Discusses both BL and pseudo-Alfonsine Tresor.

Ka.4. °Ballesteros Beretta, Antonio. Alfonso X el Sabio. Barcelona: 'El Alber', 1984.
Discusses BL's embassy to Alcazar in Seville.

Ka.5. °Bolton Holloway, Julia. 'The Road through Roncesvalles: Alfonsine Formation of BL and Dante - Diplomacy and Literature'. In Emperor of Culture: Alfonso X the Learned of Castile and his Thirteenth-Century Renaissance. Ed. Robert J. Burns, S.J. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990. Pp. 109-123, 239-247. Earlier published as 'Alfonso el Sabio, BL and DA'. Thought 239 (1985), 468-483.

Ka.6. Alfonso el Sabio. General estoria. Ed. Antonio G. Solalinde, Lloyd A. Kasten & Victor R.B. Oelschläger. I, Madrid: Centro de Estudios Históricos, 1930. II, 2 vols, Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 1957-61.
While Scott (LbII) notes that Dante derives his parallelism in history from BL, it should be observed that BL may derives his Eusebian perspective partly from Alfonso el Sabio's Estoria which likewise draws parallels between Old Testament history and Greco-Roman mythology. This excellent edition covers only the first two Parts of Alfonso's immensely long work. Other extant parts are included in the microfiche edition of Lloyd Kasten and John Nitti, Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1978.

Ka.7. Alfonso el Sabio. Lapidario. Ed. Maria Brey Mariño. Madrid: Castalia, 1980. Odres Nuevos.
Modern Spanish version, with good general introduction; notes that Escorial MS h-I-15 written 1250-60, Escorial h-I-16, 1279.

Ka.8. Alfonso el Sabio. 'Lapidario' (segun el manuscrito escurialense G.I-15). Ed. Sagrario Rodrguez and M. Montalvo. Madrid: Editorial Gredos, 1981.,

Ka.9. Alfonso el Sabio. 'Lapidario' and 'Libro de las formas & ymagines'. Ed. Roderic C. Diman and Lynn W. Winget. Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1980.
A sound edition, with useful introduction, and concordances on microfiches. Lapidario is edited from Escorial MS h.I.15. Alfonso's Lapidario is much more Arabic than BL's.

Ka.10. Alfonso el Sabio. Las siete partidas del rey don Alfonso el sabio. Madrid: Real Academia de la Historia, 1807. English translation with notes by Samuel Parsons Scott, Introduction, Table of Contexts and Index by Charles Sumner Lobinger, Bibliography by John Vance. Chicago: Commerce Clearing House for the Comparative Law Bureau of the American Bar Association, 1931.
It is interesting that Dante's definition of the pilgrim in VN XL (and consequently that of Cesare Ripa, Nova iconologia, Padua, 1618) echoes that in Siete partidas I.497-500. I suggest that BL transmitted this text from Spain to Italy, from Alfonso to DA.

*Ka. Ferreiro Alemparte, Jaime. 'Recepcion de las Eticas y de la Politica de Aristoteles en Las Siete Partidas del Rey Sabio'. Glossae Revista de Historia de Derecho Europeo 1 (1988), 97-133. 

*Ka.11. Fraker, Charles F. 'The Fet de Romains and the Primera cronica general'. Hispanic Review 46 (1978), 199-220.
Cited in Deyermond, Alfonso X of Castile, Bibliography. See Ja.

Ka.12. °Keller, John and Richard P. Kinkade. 'Iconography and Literature: Alfonso Himself in Cantiga 209'. Hispania (U.S.A.) 66 (1983), 348-52.
Discusses Florentine codex of Cantigas, especially the miracle, which has unique illumination of this scene, of Alfonso's recovery from illness upon being given a copy of his own Cantigas. See also
Serrano (Ka).

*Ka.13. Memorial Historico Español I. Madrid, 1851.
Cited, Carmody (B,63), p. xvi, on Alfonso in Toledo, 2 February, Soria, 12 April, Cordóva, 3-6 June, Seville, 27 July. BL's last entry in Libro di Montaperti 24 July, Battle of Montaperti, 4 September. Therefore his embassy was to Seville.

Ka.14. Mineo, Nicolò. 'Ancora su Dante e il 'Libro della Scala'. Medioevo romanzo e orientale. Viaggi dei testi, III Colloquio Internazionale Venezia, 10-13 ottobre 1996. A cura di Antonio Pioletti e Francesca Rizzo Nervo. Venezia: Rubbettino, 1999. Pp. 557-584.
BL, pp. 571-2, 578-9.

*Ka.15. Montoya Martinez, Jesús. 'La norma rétorica en la obra di Alfonso X'. Medioevo y literatura (1995), 147-170.
Cited SDI (Da).

          Ka.16. Murga, Félix Fernández. 'Dante e la visione della Spagna'. Letture classensi 20-21 (1992). 35-49.
Brief discussion of BL, pp. 37-38.

Ka.17. Procter, Evelyn S. Alfonso X, Patron of Literature and Learning. London: Oxford University Press, 1951.

*Ka.18. Rico, Francisco. Alfonso el Sabio y la 'General estoria': tres leciones. Barcelona: Ariel, 1972. 2nd ed., 1984.
The fundamental study of General estoria. Rico discusses the genre of universal history, the concepts of history and chronology, and Alfonso's view of knowledge and its divisions, all points at which Alfonso is likely to have influenced BL.

Ka.19. °Rubio, P. Fernando. 'La Historia de Troya de Alfonso el Sabio'. La Cuidad de Dios 174 (1961), 357-80.
Discusses knowledge of Trojan tale in medieval world.

Ka.20. Sayvetz, Aaron. 'On the Alfonsine Astronomical Tales'. Romance Quarterly 33 (1986), 343-347.

Ka.21.Snow, Joseph. The Poetry of Alfonso X, el Sabio: A Critical Bibliography. London: Grant & Cutler, 1977. Research Bibliographies and Checklists, 19.

Ka.22. Solalinde, Antonio G. 'El codice florentino de las Cantigas y su relación con las demás manuscritos'. RFE 5 (1918), 143-79.
Important article on Florentine Cantigas, which is from Alfonso's scriptorium.


The Miracle of the Book, where the Cantigas heal Alfonso, their Author.

See also °Proceedings of the City and the Book International Conference, Florence, 4-7 September 2002, http://www.florin.ms/beth2.html, which include:

Ka.23. °Franco, Angela.  Alfonso el Sabio, Las Cantigas de Santa Maria

Ka.24. °Jackson, Deirdre.The Disordered Quires of the Florentine Cantigas de Santa Maria

Ka.25. °Srrano, Nhora Lucia. Alfonso el Sabio, The Florentine Cantigas de Santa Maria

Ka.26. °Betka, Ursula. The Florentine Laudari and Orsanmichele

Two Tesoro MSS falsely attributed to Alfonso el Sabio in the Madrid Biblioteca Nacional should be noted: Res. 20 (Jc6), 'Del Tesoro fecho por mi do Alfonso Re', dated 1262 (see Jc5, Ka1), the other, a BL Tesoro in Castilian (BbIII.4), which proclaims itself written by Alfonso VI in 1065! It is a late paper MS; not listed, Faulhaber (BgIV), though Baldwin (B.86) does give it.


Kb Rustico di Filippo e Palamidesse

BL names these poets in Il favolello. See Monaci, Crestomazia (C.56): Rustico di Filippo, pp. 287-97, Palamidesse, pp. 292-97; and Poeti del Duecento (C.69), pp. 339-67.
Vatican MS 3793 contains canzone and tençioni of Palamidesse Bellindoti, Guglielmo Beroardi, Rustico di Filippo, Brunetto Latino, etc. Rustico di Filippo is also spoken of by Francesco da Barberino in gloss to Documenti d'amore, ed. Francesco Egidi (Roma: Società Filologia Romana, 1905-1927), I.190-191.

        Kb.1. °Del Lungo, Isidoro. Un realisto fiorentino de' tempi di Dante: diporto per Firenze antica'. Rivista d'Italia 2:2:10 (1899), 193-212, *425ff.

        *Kb.2. Giunta, Claudio. Due saggi sulla tenzone. Padova: Antenore, 2002. Miscellanea erudita, 63.

Kb.3. Levin, Joan H. Rustico di Filippo and the Florentine Lyric Tradition. Berne: Peter Lang, 1986.

Kb.4. Maffia Scariati, Irene. 'Ser Pepo, ser Brunetto e magister Buoncompagno: il testo travestito'. Lingua nostra 65:3-4 (2004), 65-72.
Discusses Rustico di Filippo parodic tenzone and BL and other rhetoricians.

Kb.5. Marti, Mario. 'La coscienza stilistica di Rustico di Filippo e la sua poesia'. Cultura e stile nei poeti giocosi del tempo di Dante. Pisa: Lischi, 1953.

Kb.6. Marti, Mario. Con Dante fra i poeti del suo tempo. Lecce: Milella, 1971.

Kb.7. Marti, Mario. 'La coscienza stilistica di Rustico di Filippo e la sua poesia'. Cultura e stile nei poeti giocosi del tempo di Dante. Pisa: Nistri-Lischi, 1953. Pp. 41-58.

Kb.8. °Palmieri, Ruggiero. 'Palamidesse Bellindote, poeta fiorentino del sec. XIII'. Il Giornale dantesco, 2:3 (1915), 132-140.

Kb.9. Percopo, Erasmo. 'Il Fiore è di Rustico di Filippo'. RCLI 12 (1907), 49-59.
Fiore is aristocratic, Tesoretto republican; Rustico a Ghibelline, BL Guelf; Rustico in France, 1260 and 1300, could have learned of Roman de la Rose from BL; similarities with Francesco da Barberino. See Ke.

Kb.10. Piazza, Giovanni. La novella fronda. Milano: Trevesini, 1919.
I.124-143, discusses Francesco da Barberino, this circle of poets and their relations to Charles of Anjou.

Kb.11. Picone, Michelangelo. 'La Firenze di Brunetto' in 'Le città toscane'. Lo spazio letterario del Medioevo. 2 Il Medioevo volgare, La produzione del testo. Direttori Piero Boitani, Mario Mancini, Alberto Vàrvaro. Roma: Salerno Editrice, 2001. Pp. 722-734.
One glimpses here a 'Tuscan League of Poets'.

Kb.12. Le rime di Rustico di Filippo. A cura di Vincenzo Federici. Bergamo: Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche, 1899.

*Kb.13. Rustico Filippi. Sonetti. A cura di P.V. Mangaldo. Torino, 1971.

Kc. Adam de la Halle and Arras circle

Davidsohn, II.778, notes Rutebeuf reference to Charles as new Charlemagne, his Paladins as 'Rolandini'; III.97, horse given to 'Adam le ménestrel' from Arras; V.83, Charles using Florentines in Naples to transcribe Arabic works. Adam de la Halle accompanied Charles from Arras to Naples. Aucassin and Nicolete also composed in this Arras milieu.

Kc.1. Adam de la Halle. Oeuvres complètes (poésies e musique). Ed. Edmond de Coussemaker. Paris, 1872; Geneva: Skatline, 1970.
Wrote "Cest du roy de Sézile". There are also associations with Jean de Meun in the writings of both men.

Kc.2. Brusegan, Rosanna. 'Arras e il mondo cittadino'. Lo spazio letterario del Medioevo. 2 Il Medioevo volgare, La produzione del testo. Direttori Piero Boitani, Mario Mancini, Alberto Vàrvaro. Roma: Salerno Editrice, 2001. Pp. 497-541.
Discusses BL, Adam de la Halle, Jean Bodel, Courtois d'Arras.

*Kc.3. Maillard, J. 'Roi-Trouvère du XIIIe siècle, Charles d'Anjou'. American Institute of Musicology s. 1 (1967).

Kc.4. °Pauphilet, Albert. Jeux et sapience du Moyen Age. Paris: Gallimard, 1951 Bibliothèque de la Pléiade 61. Pp. 43-202.
With Arras texts: Jean Bodel, Jeu de Saint-Nicholas; Courtois d'Arras; Adam le Bossu (de la Halle), Le Jeu de Robin et Marion.

Kc.5. °Symes, Carol. A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007.
An important book on the vitality of civic life and art in Arras at the time of Brunetto Latino's exile there.

Kd. Bono Giamboni e Fra Guidotto da Bologna

Testa (Da), p. 83, cites scholarship on Bono Giamboni. Segre (C.70), pp. 227-54, doubts that Bono Giamboni was translator of Tresor as Tesoro, noting, p. 311, that only one Tesoro MS, M (BbII.35) bears Bono Giamboni's name. See also BbIII, BgIII and the printed editions ascribed to Brunetto Latino, C.2, 4, 6, 12, 38, 42, 43, 58, and those ascribed to Bono Giamboni, C.26, 34, 44, 50. See Divizia (Jb.22) and website: http://culturitalia.uibk.ac.at/atlante/atlante/autori/Giamboni/giamboni.htm


*Kd.1. Bertoni, Giulio. 'Di una poeta francese in Italia alla corte di Carlo d'Angiò (Perrin d'Agincourt)'. Studi di filologia moderna 5:3-4 (1912).

Kd.2. Bono Giamboni. Il 'Libro de' vizî e delle virtudi' e il 'Trattato di virtù e di viziì'. A cura di Cesare Segre. Torino: Einaudi, 1968.
Again, Segre claims (p. xiv) Tesoro was not translated by Bono Giamboni, a section of which is a treatise on virtues and vices. G. Villani says BL wrote such a work. Segre notes that BL's and Bono Giamboni's similar material is didactic, civic, middle class. Giamboni did much to popularize Boethius. P. xxvii, on imitation of De planctu naturae.

Kd.3. Bono Giamboni. Fiore di rettorica. A cura di Gian Battista Speroni. Pavia: Dipartimento di Scienza della Letteratura e dell’Arte medioevale e moderna, 1994.

Kd.4. Debenedetti, Santorre. 'Bono Giamboni'. Studi Medievali, 4 (1912-13), 271-278.

Kd.5. °Divizia, Paolo. 'Ancora un compendio del Libro de’ Vizi e delle Virtudi di Bono Giamboni'. MR, 27:1 (2003), pp. 33-43.

Kd.6. Schiaffini, Alfredo. 'I precursori di Dante. I. Guittone d'Arezzo. II. Bono Giamboni. III. Guido Cavalcanti, Guittone e BL'. Italiano antico e moderno. A cura di Tullio De Mauro e Paolo Mazzantini. Milano: Ricciardi, 1975. Pp. 263-270.

Bono Giamboni was a Ghibelline Florentine judge and associate of BL, particularly during the Peace of Cardinal Latino. In the Florentine State Archives for Santa Maria Novella, 13 July 1272, we find adjacent documents involving the sale of property, one witnessed by BL, the other by Bono Giamboni (A.53). Their material is similar, causing the later confusion. As colleagues they could easily influence each other.

Fra Guidotto da Bologna is contemporary rhetorician whose work is often bound with BL's Rettorica. Both he and BL translate Cicero. See Wieruszowski (F), p. 371.

Kd.7. Il Fiore di rettorica di frate Guidotto da Bologna. A cura di Bartolomeo Gamba. Venezia: Alisopoli, 1821. Testi di lingua.

Ke. Taddeo di Alderotto

BL translated Hermann the German's translation of Aristotle's Ethics, made at Toledo in 1240-43 into French for the Tresor. For the Italian Tesoro he used Taddeo di Alderotto's Latin or Italian translation, made in 1243-44, of the Ethics instead, and he carefully calls attention to this in the manuscripts. The first version emanates from Spanish Islam; the second from Frederick II's Sicilian Renaissance, who gave it to the University of Bologna, his son Manfred giving it to the University of Paris. (Robert Grosseteste's translation of the Ethics was also thought to have been made made 1240-43. However, R.W. Southern, Jb38, believes it is later.) Taddeo's other writings are all in Latin. Carmody (B.63), p. xxviii, says that scholars incorrectly speak of Taddeo having made an Italian translation. Berlan (C.28), p. ix, notes that some people assume Taddeo translated the Ethica into the vernacular. BL's text contains an ambiguity: 'Explicit hetica aristotiles a magistro Taddeo in volgare traslactata', which can mean either than Taddeo translated it into the vernacular or that Taddeo's Latin text has now been translated by BL into the vernacular, a translation of a translation. See esp. G, H, Ja. Maria Corti's Dante a un nuova crocevia (Firenze: Sansoni, 1982), pp. 14, 23-24, discusses the Averroistic context of Bologna, including Taddeo di Alderotto (excellent), but did not relate this material to DA and Guido Cavalcanti through BL, while her posthumous book,  Scritti su Cavalcanti e Dante. La felicità mentale. Percorsi dell'invenzione e altri saggi (Torino: Einaudi, 2003), centres on that relationship (LaI1). My own conclusion, from MSS evidence, is that BL translated Taddeo's Latin into Italian because it was the official text (see Ke). See also Salviati (H).

Ke.1. 'Alderotto, Taddeo'. Enciclopedia dantesca (E), I, p. 112.
Thaddeus Florentinus, medical doctor, born 1223, educated in Greco-Arabic tradition of Salerno, translated Ethica, 1243/44, taught at Bologna from 1260, Pope's doctor, 127, died 1295. Contemporary of BL.

Ke.2. Corti, Maria, 'Dante e l'oltretomba islamica'. L'Alighieri 36 (1995), 11.
Cited, Venturi (Da), who notes Dante prefers Aristotle's Ethics in Hermann the German's translation to that by Roger Bacon. Corti notes that Columns of Hercules are only in Arabic and Spanish tradition, not Greek or Latin, discusses Libro della Scala MSS.

Ke.3. °de Vaux, Roland. 'La première entrée d'Averroës chez les latins'. Revue des Sciences philosophiques et théologiques 21 (1933), 193-245.
Discusses translations into Latin of Averroistic material. Not especially useful for BL studies as it does not study the translations of Aristotle's Ethics in detail.

Ke.4. Frati, Lodovico. 'L'etica di Aristotile volgarizzata da Taddeo di Alderotto'. GSLI 68 (1916), 192-95.
Discusses whether Taddeo or Bono Giamboni was responsible for the Italian translation. Notes Riccardian, Laurentian, Magliabechian MSS and one at Bologna University, 2593, copied by a Pisan in Florence. (Bondi Pisano, in prison in Florence, was scribe of Florence, Laur. 42.23, BbII.30).

Ke.5. Gentile, Sonia. 'Destini incrociati. Taddeo Alderotti docente allo studio bolognese et la letteratura volgare delle origine'. Bologna nel Medioevo, Atti del convegno, Bologna, 28-29 ottobre 2002. Quaderni di Filologia Romanza della Facoltà di Lettere dell'Universita di Bologna 17 (2004), 165-206.
Detailed account of MSS of Nicomachean Ethics (the Summa Alexandrinorum epitome), translated by Alderotti.

Ke.6. Gentili, Sonia. 'Il fondamento aristotelico del programma divulgativo dantesco ("Conv." I)'. Le culture di Dante: Studi in onore di Robert Hollander, Atti del quarto seminario dantesco internazionale, University of Notre Dame, USA, 25-27 settembre 2003. A cura di Michelangelo Picone, Theodore J. Cacher, Jr e Margherita Mesirca. Firenze: Franco Cesati Editore, 2004. Pp. 179.197.
Notes, pp. 194-5, that Taddeo di Alderotto dedicates translation to Corso Donati; states BL uses Taddeo in French Tresor, but discussants later, p. 209-210, note that the French MSS employ the Hermann the German translation instead.

*Ke.7. Gentile, Sonia. L'uomo aristotelico alle origini della letteratura italiana. Roma: Carocci, Università degli studi di Roma 'La Sapienza', 2005.
Esp. first chapter, 'La scuola di Taddeo Alderotti: divulgazione dell'Etica e etica della divulgazione', pp. 27-55. Cited, Divizia (.

Ke.8. Gutman, René. Dante, la médecine et la philosophie de son temps. Paris:  Deren, 1965.
Says  DA was at Bologna and knew Taddeo. Notes that Dante was member of guild of physicians and pharmacists (as was also Giotto). Taddeo in Par., BL, p. 11.

Ke.9. Jourdain, M. Recherches critiques sur l'âge et l'origine des traduction latines d'Aristote, et sur des commentaires grecs ou arabes employés par les docteurs scholastiques. Paris: Pantin, 1819.
A splendid, though early and disorganized (because of the premature death of the author) study of medieval Aristotle MSS. Especially useful for Liber ethicorum.

Ke.10. Nardi, Bruno. 'L'averroismo bolognese nel secolo XIII e Taddeo Alderotto'. Rivista di Storia della Filosofia 4 (1949), 11-22.
Notes that Frederick, though his Chancellor Pier delle Vigne, sent Aristotle in Latin to Bologna University, Manfred, in turn, sending it to the University of Paris. He assumes Taddeo translated Ethica into Italian, rather than into Latin. Notes that Averroism was being severely condemned at Paris and Oxford as heresy at the time Taddeo was teaching, and that Taddeo and Guido Cavalcanti were two Averroists who influenced DA.

Ke.11. Paitoni, Jacopo Maria. 'Ragguaglio del libro intitolato L'ethica di Aristotele ridotta in compendio da ser BL, e altre traduttioni'. Raccolta d'opuscoli scientifici e filologici 42 (Venezia: Occhi, 1750), pp. 187-235.
Discusses editions of Ethica; also Tesoro and Rettorica. Notes 'Ethyca Aristotelis traslata in vulgari a magistro Taddeo Florentino, in Riccardiano XXVII'. Interesting early essay on Ethica and Tesoro.

Ke.12. Pinto, Giuseppe. Taddeo di Firenze o la medicina in Bologna nel XIII secolo. Roma: R. Accademia dei Lincei, 1888.
Notes F. Villani wrote Taddeo's Vita; that Taddeo was Averroist and Galenist, and is mentioned in Conv. and Par.; and that Vat. Lat. 2418, Consilia medicina, was annotated by Francesco d'Accorso.

Ke.13. °Siraisi, Nancy. Taddeo Alderotti and his Pupils: Two Generations of Italian Medical Learning. Princeton: University Press, 1981.
See pp. 72-83 for overview of scholarship on BL and Ethica translation.

Manuscripts connected with Aristotle, Ethica, translations of interest:

Ke.MS1. Paris, B.N. lat. 12954
Fly-leaf in BL's hand notes 'This book contains the book of Seneca and the book of Aristotle's Ethics', and is a
nnotated in hand like BL's. The rest of the text is in the Bolognan libraria of Aa1. The Nicomachean Ethics section notes it was translated from Arabic into Latin by Taddeo, 8 April, 1244.  Evidence that BL had this text in France?

Ke.MS2. Paris, B.N. 16581.
Hermann the German's translation of Aristotle's Ethics. Bolognan libraria. Annotated in hand like BL's. Careful corrections to text.

Ke.MS3. Arras. Bibl. Mun. 330.
French MS copied from BL Ethica, bought by Italian monk at French Abbaye de St.-Vaast, Arras, who will later become Bishop of Chartres, Giovanni Fabri/ Jean Lefebre.

Ke.MS4. Firenze, Laur. Plut. 89, inf. 41.
Latin MS contains Historia troiana, Eusebian tales, Book of Alexander, Book of the Sybil, Joachim da Fiore, Seneca to Nero, Aristotle's Ethics, translation dated 8 April 1243, Cicero, Catilinaria MS copied out in Bolognan libraria in 1313. Marchesi (Jb), p. 25, is in error in saying this MS is 13 C, likewise causing error in Corti (LaI). Related to Berne Bibliothek 98 (BbI.30).

See Ke.4, Ke.11 for further manuscripts.

Ke.MS5. Gordon Leff, Paris and Oxford Universities in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: An Institutional and Intellectual History, New York: Wiley, 1968, p. 136, n., also notes *Paris, B.N. 15453, 1243 MS of Hermann the German's complete translation of Averroës' Aristotle material, including Ethics.

Of interest for Taddeo Alderotti is also his Consilia medicina:

Ke.MS6. Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica, 2418. Consilia medicina. Microfilm
This work occurs at fol. 93 in MS that also contains material by Avicenna with commentary by Averro
ës, medical texts, lapidaries, written in exquisite Bolognan libraria, illumination of physician in red gown with urinal.


Kf. Il Fiore

The Roman de la Rose (written out in Italian hand), Il Fiore and the Detto d'amore were once together in the same manuscript, now to be found separately at Montepellier and in the Laurentian Library. The Fiore MS, Montpellier H 438, was not always at Montpellier, being acquired by Etienne Bouhier when he was a student in 1611 at Padua and taken first to Dijon, then Troyes, before being housed at Montpellier. It is important to remember that Francesco da Barberino (LaII) was also at Padua. See also Neri (Da) and Jb for Roman de la Rose materials, Brownlee (Kf) for Il Fiore. See also N. Doubtful Works.

Kf.1. Armour, Peter. 'The Roman de la Rose and the Fiore: Aspects of a Literary Transplantation'. Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies 2 (1993).

Kf.2. Brownlee, Kevin. 'The Practice of Cultural Authority: Italian Response to French Cultural Dominance in Il Tesoretto, Il Fiore and the Commedia'. Dante: The Critical Complex. I. Dante and Beatrice: The Poet's Life and the Invention of Poetry. Ed. Richard Lansing. New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. 258-269.
Dates Il Fiore, late 1280s.

Kf.3. Fasani, Remo. 'Il "Fiore" e BL'. SPCT 57 (1998), 5-36.
Notes legal context of Fiore's writing, suggests 'messer Gianni' is Jean de Meun, notes Fiore and Detto use lo/li/volta, where Tesoretto and Favolello use il/i/fiata. Believes BL author of Fiore (earlier he had proposed Pucci as author), but why not consider fellow student with Dante of BL, ser Francesco da Barberino, present in Padua at that date, as author?

Kf.4. Castets, Ferdinand. 'Il Fiore': Poème italien du XIIIe siècle, en CCXXXII sonnets imité du 'Roman de la Rose' par Durante. Montpellier: La Société pour l'Etude des Langues Romanes, 1881.
Dreams of Dante as author, 'ser Durante'. Dante is never called 'ser', though that title is BL's. BL did briefly visit Montpellier, according to Tesoretto, but this manuscript came there later.

Kf.5. Contini, Gianfranco. 'Un nodo della cultura medievale: la serie Roman de la Rose - Fiore - DC'. LIt 25 (1973), 162-89. Rpt. in Un' idea di Dante: saggi danteschi. Torino: Einaudi, 1976.
Discusses cluster of works, and claims Dante wrote Fiore. See LbI.

Kf.6. D'Ancona, Alessandro. 'Il Romanzo della Rosa in italiano'. Varietà storiche e letterarie. 2nd ser. Milano: Treves, 1885. Pp. 1-31.
Speaks of Tesoretto, p. 3, and Tresor, p. 4. Notes BL more French in style than DA who does not use personification allegory. On 'Pulzeletta' sonnets, believes it to be introduction to Fiore, not VN, p. 26. See LbI.

Kf.7. Muner, Mario. 'La paternità brunettiana del Fiore e del Detto d'amore'. MDC 9 (1971), 274-320.
Response to Contini. Even stronger than Wiese (C.46) on Riccardian 2908 as BL's, stating that Contini/Pozzi's normalization obscure the connection.

Kf.8. Muner, Mario. 'Perché il Fiore non può essere di Dante (e a chi invece potrebbe attribuirsi)'. MDC 7 (1969), 88-103.
Response to Contini's assertion that Fiore is DA's. Very structuralist. Relates Fiore and Detto d'amore to each other lexically, and not both to DA. Notes metrical similarity of Tesoretto and Detto. Argues for BL's authorship, through reading Montpellier MS 'ser Durante' as 'ser Burnetto'. I disagree with this conclusion and with Contini's, while seeing these works clearly as products of BL's circle, and, in this case, most likely by Francesco da Barberino.

Kf.9. Vanossi, Luigi. Dante e il Roman de la Rose'. Saggio sul 'Fiore'. Firenze: Olschki, 1979. Biblioteca dell'AR.
BL mentioned throughout; p. 344, notes that DA quotes Roman de la Rose to BL, on Wheel of Fortune.

Kf.10. °Picone, Michelangelo. 'Il Fiore: struttura profonda e problemi attribuitivi'. Vox Romanica 33 (1974), 145-56.

Kf.11. Ronsin, Albert. La Bibliothèque Bouhier: Histoire d'une collection formée du XIVe au XVIIe siècle par une famille de magistrats bourguignons. Dijon: Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles Lettres, 1971.
On MSS that later came to Montpellier, noting MS with Roman de la Rose (in Italian script), bound with Il Fiore, purchased in Padua.

Kf.12. Rossi, Luciano. 'Dante, la Rosa e il Fiore'. Studi sul canone letterario de Trecento. Per Michelangelo Picone. A cura di Johannes Bartuschat e Luciano Rossi. Ravenna: Longo, 2003.
Notes Jean de Meun and his brother at Bologna, 1265-1269. Discusses DA's 'Messer Brunetto' sonnet about 'pulzeletta' as accompanying Il Fiore, 'Messer Gianni' as Jean de Meun.

Kf.13.
The “Fiore” in Context. Dante, France, Tuscany. A cura di Zygmunt G. Barański e Patrick Boyde. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1997; Rassegna Europea di Letteratura Italiana 11 (1998), 135-38.
Inconclusive debate by scholars on whether Dante is author of Il Fiore, Armour suggesting BL, author.


Kg. Provençal and Sicilian poets

Kg.1. Biandini, Simonetta. 'Giacomo da Letini e Brunetto Latini: una questione di firme'. Studio medio latini e volgari 41(1995),27-50.
On the circle of poets about BL and the influence on them of Provençal and Sicilian poets, in particular the self-naming.

*Kg.2. Brunel, C. Bibliographie des manuscrits littéraires en ancien provençal. Paris, 1935. P. 88.

*Kg.3. Mussafia, Adolfo. 'Del Codice estense di rime provenzali: relazione di Alfonso Mussafia'. Wien, K. Akademie zu Wien, Phil.-hist. Klasse, a.55 (1897). Pp. 339-459.

*Kg.4. Savj-Lopez, P. 'Il canzoniere provenzale J'. Studi di Filologia Romanza, 9 (1903), 490-8.

*Kg.5. Stengel, E. 'Studi sopra i canzonieri provenzali di Firenze e di Roma', Rivista di Filologia Romanza 1 (1872), 20-45.

Kg.5.MS1. Modena, Biblioteca Estense, E.152=alpha.K.2.48 Roman de la Rose
It was discovered in the archive at Monteferrate, given by Debenedetti to Giulio Bertoni, who deposited it in Modena's library

Kg.5.MS2. Modena, Biblioteca Estense, E.45=alpha. R.4.4, dated 12 August 1254, Poetarum Provinciali. Related to above MS.

Kg.5.MS3. Torino, Biblioteca Nazionale, L.II.18. Livres dou Tresor (AbII59), with Provençal poem at end of MS, 'Amors m'a fach novelamen asire'.

Kg.5.MS4. Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale, Conv. Soppr. F.IV.776. °Microfilm
Italian MS of Albertanus da Brescia, translated in Paris by Andrea da Grosseto, 1268, with
Fiore di filosofi e di molti savi, attributed to BL by G. Villani, and Provençal poems, written out by same scribe. Latino names on flyleaves as family owners of MS. Opening text illuminated with a figure of Grammar teaching boys, the Provençal lyrics having spaces left for their author portraits.

Kg.5.MS5. Facsimile. Il Canzoniere Palatino: Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, Banco Rari 217, Ex-Palatino 418. Ed. Lino Leonardi. Firenze: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2000.


L. Influence
BL's influence upon DA will swell this part of the bibliography. But BL was important for other writers also, from his day until ours. All the entries in section E are relevant here. Scherillo (E), pp. 125-27, reviews the debate on the 'Pulzeletta' sonnet. Francesco Mazzoni has an excellent essay on 'Brunetto in Dante' as preface to his edition of the Tesoretto (C.75). Though he does not mention BL, Leo Spitzer's 'Note on the Poetic and Empirical "I" in Medieval Authors', Traditio 4 (1946), 414-22, rpt. in his Romanische Literaturstudien 1936-1956, Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1959, pp. 100-12, is certainly relevant to BL's and DA's use of their exiled and pilgrim personae in their poems. See also Imbriani (M), Novati (F). Ubaldini, in his preface to the Tesoretto (C.10), notes that 'Dante imitò lo smarrimento per una selva oscura', while Testa (Da), p. 87, comments that most writers on this topic in the nineteenth century acknowledged DA's borrowing from BL. Brunetto's openness to Arabic and Jewish culture will be reflected in Dante's use of the Libro della Scala and in his friendship with Immanuello Romano who imitates him in L'Inferno e il Paradiso, a cura di Giorgio Battistoni, Firenze: Giuntina, 2000; Giorgio Battistoni, Dante, Verona e la Cultura ebraica, Firenze: Giuntina, 2004.
On Francesco da Barberino, who may be two people, see also U. Marchesini (BgI.7,8) and Degenhart (Ia). Testa also notes (Da), p. 81, that BL influenced Frezzi, Quadriregio, as well as Fazio degli Uberti, Dittamondo (LcI). See the entries in J (Sources) on the Roman de la Rose which also discuss Il fiore and the 'Pulzeletta' sonnet, and Ke. Il fiore.  A partial explanation of DA's wish to punish BL, who influenced him so strongly, may be found by applying Harold Bloom's Freudian concept of the 'Anxiety of Influence' (Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry, London: Oxford University Press, 1973).

LaI. Guido Cavalcante

LaI.1. Corti, Maria. Scritti su Cavalcanti e Dante. La felicità mentale. Percorsi dell'invenzione e altri saggi. Torino: Einaudi, 2003.
Discusses BL's embassy in Spain, acquisition of Hermann the German's translations of Aristotle from the Arabic and its influence on Guido Cavalcanti and DA. Is in error in relying on Marchesi concerning Aristotle MS (Jb).

LaI.2. Ercole, Pietro. Guido Cavalcanti e le sue rime. Livorno: Vigo, 1885.
Discusses BL as 'Maestro' to Cavalcanti and DA, giving documentation. P. 66, discusses 'Pulzeletta' controversy. Pp. 396-97, on sodomy.

LaI.3. Kristeller, Paul Oskar. 'A Philosophical Treatise from Bologna dedicated to Guido Cavalcanti: Magister Jacobus de Pistorio and his 'Questio di felicitate'. Medioevo e Rinascimento: Studi in onore di Bruno Nardi. Firenze: Sansoni, 1955. Pp. 425-63.
A brilliant essay, linking Cicero, Aristotle, the University of Bologna, Taddeo Alderotto, Guido Cavalcanti. Edits text from Stuttgart, Wuerttembergische Landesbibliothek, MS Theol. Quarto 204; Biblioteca Apostolica, MS Vat. lat. 2172.  


See also Mazzoni, Enciclopedia dantesca entry (E) for further materials. Nardi (Ke) notes Guido's Bolognan Averroism.

LaII. Francesco da Barberino

In Francesco da Barberino and Dante Alighieri, we witness the continuum of text and illumination from Alfonso el Sabio and BL. See also bibliography in (I) Art; Bertoni (E. ), pp. 313-14; Bolton Holloway (E. ), pp. 301-302, 310. In holographs and other contemporary documents, Francesco is 'de Barberino'. It is now the custom to write his name with 'da', and I have accepted this practice. In relation to Skinner (F. ), Fenzi (LaII.  ), Prandi (LaII. ), is it possible that Francesco da Barberino, who died in Florence in 1348, influenced the frescoes by way of BL's Tesoro in Siena's Palazzo Pubblico, for he wrote verses on Simone Martini's Sienese Maestà painted in the Palazzo Pubblico in 1315, and whose 1337 program by Ambrogio Lorenzetti is similar to that designed by Francesco da Barberino in Treviso, 1308, and to that he had earlier witnessed Giotto paint in Padua, 1304-1305?

LaII.1. °Bertolo, Fabio Massimo - Teresa Nocita. 'Apocalissi figurata. Per l'interpretatzione del testo allegorico in appendice all'Officiolum di Francesco da Barberino'. http://www.disp.let.uniroma1.it/fileservices/filesDISP/BERTOLO-NOCITA.XP.pdf

LaII.2. °Biscaro, Gerolamo. 'Francesco da Barberino al seguito di Corso Donati'. Nuovi studi medievali 1 (1923), 255-262.
The gap Davidsohn noted between 1304-1309 in Francesco da Barberino's life is explained by Biscaro who
finds he was in Treviso as notary to Corso Donati, podestà, which may account for presence of BL manuscripts and the editio princeps in that area.

LaII.3. Il Codice Trivulziano 1080 della Divina Commedia, 1337, riprodotto. Ed. Luigi Rocca. Milano: Hopeli, 1921. Società Dantesca Italiana. Facsimile. See LaII.MS3.

LaII.4. *Egidi, Francesco. 'Le miniature dei codici garberiniani dei 'Documenti d'Amore'. L'Arte 5 (1902), 1-20. 78-95.
Cited, Bertolo-Nocita (LaII ).

LaII.5. Fenzi, Enrico. 'Ancora a proposito dell'argomento barberiniano (una possibile eco del Purgatorio nei Documenti d'Amore di Francesco da Barberino)'. Tenzone. Revista de la Asociación ccomplutense de Dantología 6 (2005), 97-119.
On dating of FB's presence in Avignon, Bologna, Mantua (where he writes about Dante and Virgil), Siena (where he writes about Simona Martini's 'Maestà' in Palazzo Pubblico), Florence (where he commissions Tino da Camaino to sculpt the Bishop Antonio dell'Orso's tomb). 

LaII.6. Fornaro, Giovanni. Le poesie liriche di Dante Alighieri. Roma: Menicanti, 1843. Pp. 8-10.
Discusses BL as influence upon DA, noting that DA, Cavalcanti and Barberino were his students. States that Tesoretto influences Barberino's Documenti.

LaII.7. Francesco da Barberino. Del reggimento e de' costumi delle donne. Roma: De Romanis, 1814.
Preface gives good biography. F. Villani, Vita, notes that he was a year older than DA. Sent to Florence to study under BL, then Bologna and Padua. Died 1348, at 84.

LaII.8. Francesco da Barberino. Documenti d'amore. Ed. Francesco Ubaldini. Roma: Mascardi, 1640.
Excellent early edition, giving Italian text, seventeenth-century version of medieval illuminations. It editor also edits Il Tesoretto in 1642 (C.10).

LaII.9. Francesco da Barberino. Documenti d'amore. Ed. Francesco Egidi. Roma: Società Filologica Romana, 1913. 3 vols.
Excellent edition, giving Italian poem, Latin translation and commentary, engravings of illuminations. Notes MSS in Rome, Vat. Barb. 4076, 4077.

LaII.10. Fratta, Aniello. 'La lingua del "Fiore" (e del "Detto d'amore") e le opere di Francesco da Barberino', in Misure Critiche, 51:14 (1984), 45-62.
Lexical analysis, noting extraordinary linguistic proximity between these works, p. 62.

LaII.11. Goldin Folena, Daniela. 'Il commento nella pagina autografa di Francesco da Barberino' o 'La forma editoriale di Francesco da Barberino, in Intorno al testo:   Tipologie del corredo esegetico e soluzione editoriali. Atti del Convegno di Urbino 1-3 ottobre 2001. Roma: Salsano Editrice, 2003. Pp. 263-282.
Discusses Francesco da Barberino as designing books, ekphrasis, 'picturam Cimaboris et Giottis'. Notes Documenti d'Amore, Vat. Barb. lat. 4076, in Bolognan tradition of legal glossing, 'glossatoria giuridica'.

LaII.12. Goldin, Daniela. 'Testo e immagine nei 'Documenti d'Amore' di Francesco da Barberino'. Quaderni d'italianistica 1 (1980), 125-138.
Discusses images and text with commentary as integral to each other in autograph Documenti d'Amore MS Barb. lat. 4076. Notes Reggimenti delle Donne also to have been illuminated, and that he designed frescoes and sculptures in Treviso and Florence in connection with their bishops.

LaII.13. *Giunti, Cesare. 'L'interazione fra testo e immagine (perdute) nel 'Reggimento' di Francesco da Barberino'. Bullettino dell'Istituto storico italiano per il Medio Evo e Archivio Muratoriano 104 (2002), 123-144.
Cited, Bertolo/Nocita (LaII).

LaII.14. Guimbard, Catherine. 'Recherches sur la vie publique de Francesco de Barberino'. Revue des Etudes italiennes N.S, 28 (1982), 5-39.
Excellent essay using imperial and arcivescovile archival documents, Bologna, Padua, Treviso, Venice, Avignon, Florence.

LaII.15. Morpurgo, S. 'Detto d'amore': antiche rime imitate dal Roman de la Rose'. Prop 1:1 (1888), 18-61.
Notes that Barberino's Documenti d'amore is gloss upon text of Tesoretto, and that Detto d'amore is in same metre and style. Also notes that Fiore, Montpellier H 438, is by the same scribe as Laurenziano Ashburnham 1234, Detto d'amore. These two manuscripts were once conjoined. Castets (Jb ) errs in saying Fiore MS is fifteenth century, while Morpurgo claims it is thirteenth century and therefore not Dante's.

*LaII.16. Nardi, V. 'Le illustrazioni dei 'Documenti d'Amore' di Francesco da Barberino'. Ricerche di storia dell'arte 49 (1993), 75-92.
Cited, Bertolo/Nocita (LaII).

LaII.17. Ortiz, Ramiro. Francesco da Barberino e la letteratura didattica neolatina. Roma: Signorelli, 1948.
Studies Reggimento. Notes he had also written 'lost' 'Fiore di Novelle'. But see C.1 and Giola (BgII).

LaII.18. Ortiz, Ramiro. 'Le imitazione dantesche e la Questione chronologica nelle opere di Francesco da Barberino'. Napoli: Tessitore, 1904. Estratto dagli Atti dell'Accademia di Archeologia, Lettere e Belle Arti 23.
Notes Francesco da Barberino in employ of Doge Giovanni Soranzo (1240-1328) at court of Clement V at Avignon. See
BbI.70. Studies Documenti d'Amore.

LaII.19. *Panzero, M.C. 'Per l'edizione critica dei 'Documenti d'amore' di Francesco da Barberino'. Studi mediolatini e volgari 40 (1994), 91-118.
Cited, Bertolo/Nocita (LaII).

LaII.20. *Petrucchi, A. 'Minima barberina. I. Note sugli autografi dei 'Documenti d'Amore'. Miscellanea di studi in onore di Aurelio Roncaglia a cinquent'anni dalla sua laurea. Modena: Mucci, 1989. III.1006-1009.
Cited, Bertolo/Nocita (LaII).

LaII.21. *Petruchi Nardelli, F. 'Minima barberina II. L'eternità Barberina. Dalla miniatura alla stampa'. Miscellanea di studi in onore di Aurelio Roncaglia a cinquent'anni dalla sua laurea. Modena: Mucci, 1989. III.1010-1014.
Cited, Bertolo/Nocita (LaII).

LaII.22.  Prandi, Maria. 'Vincenzo di Beauvais e Francesco da Barberino'. Italia medioevale e umanistica 19 (1976), 89-170.
A particularly fine, inclusive essay. Discusses his frescoes in Treviso, his association with the Doge Giovanni Soranzo, his tomb for Antonio dell'Orso by Tino da Camaino, and his own in Santa Croce with its epitaph by Boccaccio. Notes that he uses all authors present in Vincent's Speculum, and no others except Titus Livius and Alanus de Lille.

LaII.23. Segre, Cesare. 'Le forme e la tradizione didattiche'. La Littérature didactique, allégorique et satirique. Ed. Hans Robert Jauss. Heidelberg: Winter, 1968. Grundriss der Romanischen Literaturen des Mittelalters, VI.1. Pp. 93-96.

LaII.24. *Sutton, Kay. 'The Lost 'Officiolum' of Francesca da Barberino Rediscovered'. The Burlington Museum 147.1224 (March, 2005), 152-164.
Cited Bertolo/Nocita (LaII).

LaII.25. Thomas, Antoine. Francesco da Barberino et la littérature provençale en Italie au Moyen Age. Paris: Thorin, 1883.
Suggests that the aristocratic Francesco da Barberino was student of BL.

LaII.26. °Thomas, Antoine. 'Lettres latine inédites de Francesco da Barberino'. R 16 (1887), 73-91, 571-72.
Gives Pier delle Vigne-like letters from Viennese MS 3530, written from Florence, 1313, to the Emperor Henry of Luxembourg,  and to the Doge of Venice Giovanni Soranzo, in the style that BL taught to both Francesco da Barberino and DA.

See Deginhart (Ia) for likeness of Barberino's Documenti d'amore illuminations to those in Strozziano 146, Il Tesoretto (Ba.1). See also the tomb of Bishop Antonio degli Orsi in the Duomo, Florence, which Barberino designed and Tino da Camaino executed, and which is similar in style to Documenti d'amore illuminations. Davidsohn notes he is 'ser Francesco di ser Neri da Barberino'. A 'ser Francesco di ser Nardi de Barberino' is scribe of DA, DC and commentary, MSS, including one with BL, Tesoretto (Ba.3, BgI.4, LbIIIA.4, LbIIIA.11). Francesco da Barberino signs himself 'Franciscus de Barberino' in his letters and in the Trivulziano MS.

Manuscripts of interest:

LaII.MS1. Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica, Barb. lat. 4076. Documenti d'amore. °Microfilm
Chancery and Bolognan hierarchy of scripts, coloured illumiations but similar in style to Strozziano 146, Tesoretto (see Deginhart, Ia ). Italian text, Latin translation and commentary, illuminations attempt to give poetry a learned, sacred setting. Ortiz gives siglum B.

LaII.MS2. Ortiz lists another Documenti d'amore Vatican MS, Barb. lat. XLVI-19, his siglum A, begun in Italy before 1309, continued at Avignon, 1309-1313.

LaII.MS3. Firenze. Biblioteca Riccardiana 1060. Documenti d'amore, space for miniatures, not carried out.

LaII.MS4. Firenze, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Ashburnhamiano 1234. Detto d'amore. °Microfilm
Written in bad Bolognan libraria. Metre like Tesoretto's. Not ascribed to Francesco da Barberino but related work. Also contains an Alfraganus, mappamundi, astronomical drawings. MS in poor condition. For edition, see Luigi Vanossi, La teologia poetica del 'Detto d'amore' dantesco, Firenze: Olschki, 1974.

LaII.MS5. Milan, Trivulziano 1080. DC.
'Ser Franciscus Ser Nardi de Barberino vallis/. pese curie summe fontis scripsit hunc librum sub anno domini m° ccc° xxx° viij°'. Chancery hand throughout, like BL's except for long s. Similar hand is often seen annotating BL Bolognan libraria script MSS. End papers are libraria. See LaII.3.

LaII.MS6. Francesco da Barberino. Officiolum.
Auctioned at Christie's, 5 December 2003. An exquisitely illuminated Book of Hours, discovered in a private residence in Lazio. Bolognan libraria script. Same commentaries as Aa3,7 MS facsimile publ, Milan: Hoepli, 1921, Società Dantesca Italiana. Marchesini says not the same Francesco da Barberino (BgI).


Il Cosmo con l'Infanzia. Da Spolia. Journal of Medieval Studies, http://www.spolia.it/online/it, http://www.spolia.it/online/it/argomenti/letterature_romanze/filologia/2003/barberino.htm,
See also http://www.welfarecremona.it/wmprint.php?ArtID=1560 suggesting it was illuminated in Padua at the time of Giotto working there on the Scrovegni Arena Chapel frescoes; http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/formation/ymagiers040426.htm.

LaIII.MS7. Biblioteca Arcivescovile di Udine, Cod. Bartoliniano. DA, DC.
In chancery script like Francesco da Barberino codices. Illustrated in Dante e il Friuli 1321-1921, Udine: G.B. Doretti, 1922.

Lb. Dante Alighieri

LbI. VN, 'Pulzeletta' Sonnet

The text of 'Pulzeletta' sonnet is given in C.18, II, p. 32, and is translated into English by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica, Vat. lat. 3214, fol. 140; Università di Bologna 1289, fol. 32, attribute it to Betto Brunelleschi of Florence.

LbI.1. Biagi, Vincenzio. 'Il Fiore, il Roman de la Rose e Dante'. Annuali delle Università Toscane, n.s. 39 (1920), 59-144.
Reviews scholarship, providing bibliography: Morpurgo (LaI), Mussafia (E), Gaspary (LbI.3.Rev), Castets (Jb). Discusses 'Pulzeletta' sonnet, noting that it could not refer to Fiore, which is of such great length. Considers, p. 86, that perhaps BL influenced Jean de Meun. P. 141, states that Fiore is not DA's. °Bibliography.

LbI.2. Casini, Tommaso. Review of G. Mazzatinti, Inventario dei manoscritti italiani delle biblioteche di Francia, Roma: Bencini, 1888, III.viii-730. In RCLI 5 (1888), 144-48.
Claims 'Pulzeletta' sonnet accompanied Fiore as a gift to Betto Brunelleschi; states Durante is not Dante, nor this sonnet his. Unresolved problem.

*LbI.3. D'Ancona, Alessandro. Varietà storiche e letterarie. Milano, 1885. II.25-26.
Cited, Scherillo (E), on Dante's sonnet.

LbI.3.Rev. Gaspary, A. LGRP 6 (1886), 234-35.
Likewise discusses sonnet from Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica, Vat. lat. 3214, University of Bologna 1289, as well as Fiore. Notes that d'Ancona argues that Messer Giano is Jean de Meun.

LbI.4. D'Andrea, Antonio. 'La struttura della VN: le divisioni delle rime'. Yale Italian Studies 4 (1980), 13-40
Sees influence of BL, Rettorica.

LbI.5. DA. VN. A cura di Natalino Sapegno. Firenze: Valecchi, 1931.

LbI.6. De Robertis, Domenico. Il Libro della 'VN'. Firenze: Sansoni, 1970, 2nd ed.
Notes influence on DA of Cicero, Laelius de amicitia, stating that DA knew Cicero through BL, pp. 47, 100, 177. Excellent discussion.

LbI.7. °Il Fiore e Il Detto d'Amore attribuibili a Dante Alighieri. A cura di Gianfranco Contini. Milano: Mondadori, 1984.

LbI.8. Foscolo, Ugo. Discorso sul testo della 'Commedia di Dante. Firenze: Le Monnier, 1850.
Presumes sonnet accompanied VN.

LbI.9. Foster, Kenelm and Patrick Boyde. Dante's Lyric Poetry. Oxford: Clarendon, 1967. 2 vols. I, pp. 156-69; II. 255-59.
Omits BL association, considering that the sonnet was given to Betto Brunelleschi.

LbI.10. Gorni, Giuglielmo. 'Una proposta per 'Messer Brunetto'. SFI 37 (1979), 19-32.
Good article arguing that DA wrote 'Pulzeletta' sonnet to BL.

LbI.11. °Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Dante and his Circle with the Italian Poets Preceding Him. London: Ellis & Elvey, 1892. P. 96.
States that the sonnet was 'sent with the VN' by DA to BL. He interprets 'Giano' as Janus, stating further that Dante 'may be playfully advising his preceptor to avail himself of the twofold insight of Janus the double-faced'.

Lb.12. Sebastio, Leonardo. 'Tra il Roman de la Rose e Il Fiore'. L'Alighieri 29 (1988), 18-36.
Sees Raison in both works as shaped by Cicero and Aristotle, seeing De Amicita and Ethica Nicomachea as teaching the lay virtues of the city.

LbI.13. Torraca, Francesco. Noterelle dantesche (Nozze Morpurgo-Franchetti, 31 marzo 1895). Firenze: Carnesecchi, 1895.
Discusses 'Pulzeletta' sonnet, pp. 5-9, concluding that it is DA's, but accompanying a lyric to Betto Brunelleschi and not written to BL or for Fiore.

LbI.13.Rev.1 °G. Mazzoni. BSDI, n.s. 2 (1895), 161-63.

LbI.13.Rev.2. G. Mazzoni. Nuova Rassegna (1894), 89 ff.
Discuss 'Pulzeletta' sonnet, stating that a jocular sonnet could not have accompanied serious VN, scoffs at Foscolo (Lb8). Gives important references and discusses MSS.

LbI.14. Torraca, Francesco. 'Per la storia letteraria del secolo XIII'. Studi di storia letteraria. Firenze: Sansoni, 1923.
Discusses Fiore, pp. 242-71, Betto Brunelleschi, p. 245; says 'Pulzeletta' DA offers is not Fiore.

LbI.15. Vigo-Fazio, Lorenzo. Gli amici di Dante: discorso pronunciato in Parigi nella sede della 'Dante Alighieri' il 16 gennaio 1932. Lecco: Bottega d'arte, 1932.
On medieval friendship. Speaks of Francesco da Barberino, Durante.


LbII. De vulgari eloquentia and Convivio

Dante speaks of BL in VE, I.xiii, as 'Brunetum Florentinum; quorum dicta si rimari vacaverit, non curialia sed municipalis tantum invenientur', noting his use of the vernacular.

LbII.1. Baldelli, Ignazio. 'Sulla teoria linguistica di Dante'. CeS, 12-14 (1965), 705-15, esp. 707.
Discusses references to BL in VE.

LbII.2. Gentili, Sonia. 'Il fondamento aristotelico del programma divulgativo dantesco ("Conv". I)'. Le culture di Dante: studi in onore di Robert Hollander. Proceedings of the 4th International Dante Seminar held at the University of Notre Dame, 25-27 September, 2003. A cura di Michelangelo Picone, Theodore J. Cachey, Jr., Margherita Mesirca. University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. Pp. 179-197.

LbII.3. Marchesi, Simone. 'La rilettura del "De officiis" e i due tempo della composizione del "Convivio"'. GSLI 581 (2001), 84-107.
Compares Convivio with French text of Tresor.

LbII.4. Scott, John A. 'La contemporaneità Enea-Davide (Convivio IV v 6)'. StD 49 (1972), 129-34.
Identifies source as BL's Tesoro. Relates this also to Inf. XV's 'sementa santa de que' Roman'.


LbIIIA. Early commentaries on Inferno XV

Biagi (LbIIIA ) abbreviations to commentaries given.

LbIIIA.1. Commento alla Divina Commedia d'anonimo fiorentino del secolo XIV. A cura di Pietro Fanfani. Bologna: Romagnoli, 1866.
BL's part in Inf. XV is discussed, O, pp. 352-52. Fiesole matter. Notes DA's descent from Frangipani, Elisei Roman families. Biagi: An.

LbIIIA.2. Benventuro de Rambaldis de Imola. Comentum super Dantis Aldigherij Comoediam. Ed. Jacob Philip Lacaita & Lord Vernon. Firenze: Barbèra, 1887.
Inf. XV discussed, pp. 497-528. Latin commentary on Italian text. Tells of BL making error in writing, which he could have corrected, that he preferred to be accused of falsity than to retract, and was therefore exiled. Boccaccio and Landino will repeat this legend. Gives Fiesolan matter. Biagi: BV.

LbIIIA.3. Chiose anonime alla prima cantica della Divina commedia di un contemporaneo del Poeta. Torina: Stamperia Reale, 1865.
Biagi: Ch. An.

LbIIIA.4. Il Codice Trivulziano 1080 della Divina commedia, 1337, riprodotto. Ed. Luigi Rocca. Milano: Hopeli, 1921. Società Dantesca Italiana. Facsimile.
Fol. 15 notes 'Here are punished those who perverted God and Nature's goodness, such as sodomites'. Scribe of MS, 'ser Francesco di ser Nardi de Barberino'. See LbIIIA.11.

LbIIIA.5. Cristophoro Landino. Commedia di/ Danthe Alighieri/ poeta divino: col'esp/ sitione di Christopho/ ro la[n]dino: nouame[n]te/ impressa: e con somma/ dilige[n]tia revista & eme[n]date: & de nouissime postille adornata/ MDXXIX. Firenze.
Notes that Dante 'hebbe precettore Brunetto latini'. Discusses matter of Fiesole, Italian Tesoretto, and French Tresor. Biagi: Ld.

LbIIIA.6. Christophoro Landino. Opere di Divino/ Poeta Danthe con suoi comenti:/ recorrecti et con ogne di-/ ligentia novamente in litera cursiva/ impresse. Venezia: Bibliotheca S. Barnardini, 1512.
Discusses BL, Inf. XV, fls. 106v-121v. Notes at AAv 'Fiorentini excellenti in eloquenti ma credo veramente potere concludere ne loranto del dire Fiorenza sequitare le vestigie della greca Athene'. Biagi: Ld.

LbIIIA.7. Commento di Francesco da Buti sopra la 'Divina commedia' di Dante Allighieri. Ed, Crescentino Giannini. Pisa: Nistri, 1858.
Discusses Inf. BL, I, pp. 401-19. Like all commentaries speaks of BL as a man worthy of 'reverenza'; remarks how notable it is that a sinning man is also a virtuous person. Biagi: Bt.

LbIIIA.8. Giovanni Boccaccio. Il comento alla 'Divina commedia' e gli altri scritti intorno a Dante. Ed. Domenico Guerri. Bari: Laterza, 1918.
Biagi: Bc.

LbIIIA.9. Guido da Pisa. Expositiones et glose super Comedia Dantis or Commentary on Dante's Comedy. Ed. Vincenzo Cioffari. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1974.
An important edition of a major Dante commentary, others being mainly publ. by Lord Vernon in the nineteenth century, this being brought to light in the twentieth century. Latin commentary to Italian text. Inf. XV, pp- 285-93. Discussing Italian Tesoretto, French Tresor, and matter of Fiesole, relates exile to that of Ezekiel in Babylon, and discusses fame, Sallust, Ovid, Seneca. Biagi: Gd.

LbIIIA.10. Jacopo della Lana bolognese primo commentatore della 'Divina commedia'. Bologna: Favo & Garagnini, 1865.
Fifteenth century. First edition with commentary, Boccaccio's Life of Dante. Fols. 60-63, Inf. XV. Much on sodomy from patristic sources. 61v mentions mappa mundi, 62, problems of astronomy and human free will, 62v, Timothy, Origen, etc. Notes that palio at Verona was run in the nude. Biagi: Lan.

LbIIIA.11. Jacopo Alighieri. Chiose alla cantica dell'Inferno' di Dante Alighieri scritta di Jacopo Alighieri. Firenze: Bemporad, 1916.
Commentary used by Francesca da Barberino for Trivulziano 1080 (LbIIIA.4), also by Corsiniano MS (Ba.8), Brussels MS (Ba.3), with Tesoretto.

LbIIIA.12. Muratori, Ludovico Antonio. Antiquitates Italicae Medii Aevi. Milano: Palatine, 1738-42. 2 vols.
Contains fragments from Benvenuto da Imola, Commentary, I, 1059 ff. P. 1063 speaks of Florence as nation of eloquence but ungrateful to its leaders as Romans were to Scipio, Athenians to Theseus. Notes Fiesole as city of Dardanus before building of Troy. Notes Catiline's conspiracy, Caesar razing Fiesole to build Florence. Notes Dante's ancestry, Elisei, Frangipani. Relates this canto to Par. XV, Cacciaguida. Biagi: Bv.

LbIIIA.13. L'ottimo commento della 'Divina commedia', testo inedito d'un contemporaneo di Dante citato dagli accademici della Crusca. Pisa: Capurro, 1827.
Inf. XV, I, pp. 285-95; BL, pp. 287-94. P. 292 relates BL to Cicero and Farinata. Biagi: Ott.

LbIIIA.14. Petri Allegherii super Dantis ipsius genitoris comoediam commentarium. Ed. Vincenzo Nannucci & Lord Vernon. Firenze: Garinei, 1846.
Pp. 173-77. Latin commentary on Italian text. Discusses sodomy. Speaks of Catiline and Fiesole as conquered by Anthony. Relates Fortune's Wheel and agricultural cycle. Biagi: Pt.

LbIIIA.15. °Pietro Alighieri. Comentum super poema Comedie Dantis: A Critical Edition of the Third and Final Draft of Pietro Alighieri's Commentary on Dante's The Divine Comedy. A cura di Massimiliano Chiamenti. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2002.
Relates hail of flames to Sodom and Gomorra punishment. Biagi: Pt.

These commentaries are collected and condensed in

LbIIIA.16. La 'Divina Commedia' nella figurazione artistica e nel secolare commento. Ed. Guido Biagi. Torino: Unione tipografica, 1924. 3 vols.
The commentaries surround the text; also the MSS illuminations are given in the appropriate places. See Brieger, Meiss & Singleton (Id1). Essential for a Dante scholar. However, Deborah Parker, 'Dante's Medieval and Renaissance Commentators: Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Constructions', in Dante and the Middle Ages, ed. John Barnes and Cormac Ó Cuilleamáin Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1995, pp. 287-303, notes Biagi's selectivity and 'flattening of affect' in omitting medieval details.


LbIIIB. Modern commentaries on Inferno XV.

See also the Società Dantesca Italiana Bibliography, 'Brunetto Latini' http://notes.leonet.it/sdi/bibliografia.nsf/frasetSEARCH

LbIIIB.1. *Angiolillo, Giuliana. 'Canto XV. Brunetto Latino'. La nuova frontiera della tanatologia. Firenze: Olschki, 1996. I.111-121.
Also cited by Kay as in Se ben m'accorsi (inchieste e verifiche in Dante), Napoli: Società Editrice Napoletana, 1977, pp. 17-47.

LbIIIB.2. Arezio, Luigi. L'onore di Dante nella predizione di BL. Palermo: Reber, 1899.
Reviews scholarship. Discusses historical context.

LbIIIB.3. Armour, Peter. 'BL's Poetry and Dante'. Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies 6 (1998), 81-97.
Ably discusses Siculo-Tuscan poetic.

LbIIIB.4. Aurigemma, Marcello. 'I gironi dei violenti: Pier della Vigna e Brunetto Latini'. Lectura Dantis Modenese: Inferno (1984), pp. 125-137.
Discusses pride of Bargello plaque, 'Quae mare, quae terram, quae totum possidet orbem', the use of rhetoric for power.

*LbIIIB.5. Aurvoll, Jo Sigurd. 'Tolkningens komedie- Dante Alighieri og Bruno Latini'. ARR. Idéhistorisk Tidsskrift 4.1-2 (1997), 56-63.

LbIIIB.6. °Bolton Holloway, Julia. 'The Figure of the Pilgrim in Medieval Poetry'. Diss. Berkeley, 1974. Pp. 54-59. DAI 25 (1974-75), 2225-26. Revised and published as The Pilgrim and the Book: A Study of Dante, Langland and Chaucer. Berne: Peter Lang, 1987. Second edition, 1989. xix + 321 pp. Third, revised, edition, 1993. xxii + 303 pp. Reviewed: Studies in the Age of Chaucer; Annali d'Italianistica; Speculum; Journal of Medieval Studies; Medium Aevum. (ISBN 0-8204-2090-5. Obtainable from Aureo Anello Books)
Discusses Tesoretto and Commedia as pilgrimage poems whose poets are present as pilgrims within their texts.

LbIIIB.7. °Bosco, Umberto. 'Il Canto di Brunetto'. Dante vicino: contributi e letture. Roma: Sciascia, 1966, 1972.
Discusses VE's mention of BL, p. 34: Inf. XV, pp. 92-121; reviews scholarship of Pézard (LbIV), Parodi (LbIIIB), Rossi (LbIIIB), Zingarelli (LbIIIB), Contini (BgI, C.73), then analyzes Inf. XV in depth as opposition of youth and age, virtue and vice, and reverence, not contempt.

LbIIIB.8. Biondolillo, Francesco. 'Il canto di BL'. In Studi critici in onore di G.A. Cesareo. Palermo: Pirulla, 1924. Pp. 216-39.
Fine and lengthy essay, comparing and contrasting Virgil and BL. 

LbIIIB.9. °Capelli, Luigi Mario. 'Ancora del Tesoro nelle opere di Dante'. GD 5 (1897), 548-56.
Omits Tesoretto, speaks of BL as Florence's modest Cicero, notes that DA does not use BL 'archetypos', 'hyle' or 'anima'; argues that BL's woman in image of man, man in image of God, is undone by Beatrice, Lia, Piccarda, Pia, Francesca; BL democratic, DA aristocratic, DA wanting an emperor chosen by God, BL a podestà chosen by people. DA admires Caesar, Aneas, BL hates Caesar, Catiline.

LbIIIB.10. Carrannante, Antonio. 'Implicazioni dantesche: Brunetto Latini ("Inf." XV)'. L'Alighieri: Rassegna bibliografica dantesca 36, n.s. 5 (1995), 79-102.
Reviews Lectura Dantis XV presented by various scholars.

LbIIIB.11. °Carroll, John S. Exiles of Eternity: An Explanation of Dante's 'Inferno'. London; Hodder & Stoughton, 1904; rpt. New York: Kennikat, n.d. Pp. 232-39.
Charming, astute analysis of Inf. XV. Agrees with Longfellow that 'Tesoro in DA is BL's Tesoretto.

LbIIIB.12. Casella, Mario. 'Il canto di BL' In Studi critici in onore di Emilio Santini. Palermo: Manfredi, 1956. Pp. 125-28.
Notes BL is placed in this circle by Dante for a sin that his knowledge of Aristotle's and Cicero's writings should have corrected. Good, dense, brief essay.

LbIIIB.13. °Cippico, Antonio. 'Il canto di BL'. Lectura Dantis, Firenze, Orsanmichele 18 marzo 1915. GD 23 (1915), 45-52.
Describes seeing BL's Bar-sur-Aube letter at Westminster Abbey (A.40). Discusses canto.

LbIII.14. Chiavacci Leonardi, Anna Maria. 'Il maestro di morale'. La guerra de la pietate: Saggio per una interpretazione dell'Inferno di Dante. Napoli: Liguori Editrice, 1979.
Discuss Inferno as not pure evil, also love and justice being present. Speaks of profound sadness of DA's depiction of BL, who is one who loses, not wins, having failed to turn to God.


LbIIIB.15. °Colagrosso, Francesco. 'La predizione di BL'. NA 66 (1896), 56-82.
On prophecy of BL. Discusses precious scholarship.

LbIIIB.16. *Costante, Ferri di S. Article on BL and DA. Lo Spettatore 1 (1817), 70 ff.
Cited, Mazzoni (E), p. 588; Dobelli (LbIIIB), Library of Congress says citation wrong.

LbIIIB.17. Crespo, Roberto. 'Due note dantesche. I. "Copertio" (Rime LXXIII.I.8). II. BL (Inf. XV.30-33)'. StD 47 (1970), 44-47.
On BL naming self and being named by Dante 'Brunetto Latino'. That BL uses third person when speaking of himself in his literary texts.

*LbIIIB.18. *Crespo, Roberto. Brunetto Latini als vertaler van Cicero. Een episode uit de vroegste geschiedenis van het Italiaanse literaire proza. Leiden: Universitaire Pers, 1973.
On naming self as typical of Tresor and Tesoretto, carried over by DA.

LbIIIB.19. °Dante Alighieri. La DC. Ed. H. Oelsner. Trans. J.A. Carlyle, Thomas Okley and D.H. Wicksteed. London: Dent, 1933.  Temple Classics. 3 vols.

LbIIIB.20. Dante Alighieri. Opere di Dante. Ed. E. Moore. Revised, Paget Toynbee. 4th ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1924.

LbIIIB.21. °Dante Alighieri. La 'Commedia' secondo l'antica vulgata. Ed. Giorgio Petrocchi. Verona: Mondadori, 1967. 4 vols.

LBIIIB.22. Dante and the Middle Ages: Literary and Historical Essays. Ed. John Barnes, Cormac ó Cuilleannáin. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1995.
BL references passim.

LbIIIB.23. Davis, Charles Till. 'BL and Dante'. Studi medievali, 3rd ser. 8 (1967), 421-50. Rpbl. in Dante's Italy and Other Essays. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984. Pp. 169-179.
Excellent account of education, rhetoric, politics.

LbIIIB.24. Debenedetti, Santorre. 'Gli ultimi versi del canto di BL (Inf. XV.121-4)'. StD 7 (1923), 83-96.
Textual discussion of poi.

LbIIIB.25. °Delius, Nicolaus. 'Dantes Commedia und BLs Tesoretto'. DDJ 4 (1887), 1-23.
Discusses Tesoretto in depth as being Inf. XV.119's 'il mio tesoro', rather than Tresor. Observes textual parallels between Tesoretto and Commedia.

LbIIIB.26. Della Terza, Dante. 'Il canto di BL'. In Orbis Mediaevalis: Mélanges de langue et de littérature médiévales offerts à Reto Radulf Bezzola à l'occasion de son quatre-vingtième anniversaire. Ed. Georges Guntert, Marc-René Jung, Kurt Ringger. Berne: Francke, 1978. Pp. 69-88. Rpbl. as 'Canto XV. The Canto of BL'. Lectura Dantis. Inferno. A Canto by Canto Commentary. Ed. Allen Mandelbaum, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. 197-212.

*LbIIIB.27. Desideri, Giovanella. 'Per amor di cosa che non dura' (Inferno XIII e XV, vv. 80-84). Critica del testo 2.2 (1999), 751-770.

LbIIIB.28. °Dobelli, Ausonio. Il 'Tesoro' nelle opere di Dante. Venezia: Olschki, 1896. Rprt from GD 4.
Detailed discussion; reviews scholarship.

LbIIIB.29. D'Ovidio, Francesco. Nuovi studii danteschi: Ugolino, Pier della Vigna, i simoniaci e discussioni varie. Milano: Hoepli, 1907.
Essay on salvation or damnation of souls in Dante, discusses BL.

LbIIIB.30. Folena, Gianfranco. 'Il quadro terminologico medievale italiano da BL a Dante fino al Boccaccio'. Volgarizzare e tradurre. (Saggi brevi 17). Torino: Einaudi, 1991. Pp. 29-39.
Excellent essay on BL's Ciceronian materials. Compares "Pro Marcello" in Cicero, BL, Aretino.

*LbIIIB.31. Fratta, Aniello. 'Inf. XV.55-59'. L'Alighieri 25 (1984), 3-5.

*LbIIIB.32. Freccero, John. 'The Eternal Image of the Father'. The Poetry of Allusion: Virgil and Ovid in Dante's Commedia. Ed. Rachel Jacoff and Jeffrey T. Schnapp. Stanford: University Press, 1991. Pp. 62-76.

LbIIIB.33. °Giacomelli, Marco. 'In difesa di ser BL'. Atti e memorie dell'Accademia Patavina di Science, Lettere ed Arti. Memorie 92.3 (1981), 185-187. Rpbl. in Dante in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Adolph Caso. Boston: Dante University of America Press, 1982. Pp. 99-107.
Argues as a lawyer for BL's innocence.

LbIIIB.34. Gilbert, Allan H. Dante and his Comedy. New York: University Press, 1963. Pp. 133-37.
Discussion of fame.

LbIIIB.35. Ginguené, P.L. Histoire littéraire d'Italie. Milano: Giusti, 1820. II.9-15.
Discusses Tesoretto as source for Commedia. Sees BL's Ovid as parallel to DA's Virgil.

LbIIIB.36/Ic . Ginsberg, Warren. '"E chinando la mano a la sua faccia": A Note on Dante, BL and their Text'. Stanford Italian Review 5.1 (1985), 19-22.
Discusses MSS illuminations.

*LbIIIB37. Girardi, E.N. 'Il canto XV dell Inf'. Miscellanea di studi danteschi in memoria di Silvio Pasquazi. Napoli: Federico e Ardia, 1992. I.391-405.
Cited, Saivano (LbIIIB).

LbIIIB.38. Giordano, Alberto. "Brunetto fra Dante e ser Durante". Il Duecento, Actas del IV Congreso Nacional di Italianisti. Universidad di Santiago de Compostela 24-26 Marzo 1988. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1989. Pp. 345-374.
Lengthy, in depth article.

*LbIIIB.39. Giovannuzzi. Stefano. 'Brunetto e Francesca in "Purgatorio" (sul canto XXIV). Filologia e Critica 22.2 (1997), 161-185.

LbIIIB.40. °Goetz, Walter. 'Dante und BL'. DDJ 15 (1938), 78-99. Rpt. in Dante-Gesammelte Aufsätze. Munich: Hueber, 1958. Pp. 14-32.
Important article, which discusses sources, reviews scholarship, and notes contemporary poets, also early commentators who speak of BL as DA's teacher, his Führer. Discusses politics and ethics, p. 82; sodomy, pp. 93-99. Also rpt. in Aufsätze: 'BL und die arabische Wissenschaft', pp. 32-38.

LbIII.41. Gorni, Guglielmo. '"Vita Nova", libro delle "Amistado" e della "Prima etade" di Dante'. Sotto il segno di Dante: Scritti in onore di Francesco Mazzoni. A cura di Leonella Coglievina, Domenico De Robertis. Firenze: Le Lettere, 1998. Pp. 113-127.
P. 127 discusses Brunetto and Favolello in relationship to Vita Nova.

LbIIIB.42. °Havely, N.R. 'Brunetto and Palinaurus. DaSt 108 (1990), 29-38.

*LbIIIB.43. Hees, George. 'Der Einfluss von Brunetto Latinis Tesoretto auf Dantes DC'. Dissertation, Hamburg, 1952.
Cited, Jauss (G), p. 85.

LbIIIB.44. °Higgins, David H. 'Cicero, Aquinas and St Matthew in Inferno XIII'. DaSt 93 (1975), 61-94.
Examines Pier della Vigna's speech in the light of BL's Rettorica.

LbIIIB.45. Iliescu, Nicolae. 'Inferno XV: 'se tu segui tua stella'. In Essays in Honor of Louis Francis Solano. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1970. University of North Carolina Studies in Romance Languages and Literature 92. Pp. 101-15.
General analysis of canto. Notes that simile of needle's eye echoes Gospel account of rich man entering heaven, p. 106.

*LbIIIB.46. Jaconizzi, Giovanni. Il precursore immediato ed intimo della DC (Il 'Tesoro' del Latini). Udine: Crociato, 1911.
Cited, Testa (Da), #33, p. 93.

*LbIIIB.47. Kleiner, John. 'On Failing One's Teachers: Dante, Virgil and the Ironies of Instruction'. Sparks and Seeds: Medieval Literature and its Afterlife: Essays in Honor of John Freccero. Ed. Dana E. Stewart and Alison Cornish. Binghamton: State University of New York Press, 2000. Pp. 61-74.

LbIIIB.48. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The 'DC' of DA. New York: Davos Press, 1909. Pp. 312-19.
Good on Tesoretto, which he likens to Piers Plowman. Also, good discussion of Fiesole. p. 317.

LbIIIB.49. °Marchesini, Umberto. "La posizione del Latini nel canto XV dell'Inferno dantesco" In 'Due studi biografici su Brunetto Latini'. Atti dell'Istituto Veneto, serie VI, vol. 5 (1886-1887), pp. 1618-1659.
See M. This second half of Marchesini's article stresses BL in Inf. XV, reviews scholarship, examines early commentaries, discusses sodomy problem at length.

LbIIIB.50. Mazzoni, Francesco. 'Brunetto in Dante'. [Preface to C.75]
A major essay on this topic.

LbIIIB.51. °Nevin, Thomas. 'Ser Brunetto's Immortality: Inferno XV'. DaSt 96 (1978), 21-37.
Feels BL is not a Christian poet, p. 31. Reads him through distorting lens of Inf. XV, concluding that he laid up treasure on earth. See Jc.

LbIII.52. °Panetta, Maria. 'Il maestro di Dante. Rappresentazioni e allusioni letterarie a Brunetto Latini'. http://www.disp.let.uniroma1.it/fileservices/filesDISP/Auctor%20panetta.pdf

LbIIIB.53. Parodi, Ernesto Giacomo. 'Il canto di BL'. Poesie e storia nella DC. Firenze: Le Monnier, 1904. 2nd ed. Napoli: Perella, 1920, 3rd ed. Venezia: Neri Pozzi, 1965. (I use Napoli, 1920 ed.) Also publ. as Illustrazione al canto XV dell''Inferno'. Firenze: Sansoni, 1906. Lecture Dantis Genovese 1904. Pp. 253-311.
Notes need for BL at midpoint, parallel to Cacciaguida in Par. XV (p. 298). Fine general discussion.

LbIIIB.54. Pasquasi, Silvio. Canto XV dell''Inferno'. Lectura Dantis. Firenze: Le Monnier, 1968.
Speaks of 'drappo verde' scene.

LbIIIB.55. Passerone, Giorgio. Dante: Cartographie de la Vie. Paris: Kimé, 2001.
Chapter, 'Le Drap vert', discusses BL, DA. Structuralist.

LbIIIB.56. °Pastore Stocchi, Manlio. 'Delusione e giustizia nel canto XV dell'Inferno'. LIt 20 (1968), 433-455. Rpbl. in Letture classensi 3 (Ravenna: Longo, 1970), 219-254.
Essay characterized by excellent scholarship amongst primary materials. Discusses Virgil at length, noting his reputation for sodomy and pederasty and the likeness between Virgil and BL as 'dolcissimo padre'. Notes that breakwaters of Wissant, etc., are art against nature, while Inferno usually God's creation, pp. 222-23. (Wissant is actually close to Arras.) Notes simile of urban moonscape and tailor as inappropriate to BL's rank. Sees BL through DA's distorted perspective.

LbIIIB.57. °Pellegrini Sayiner, Elisabetta. “From Brunetto Latini to Dante’s Ser Brunetto”. PhD Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2000. http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9965561/

*LbIIIB.58. Petronio, C. 'Il Canto XV dell'Inf'. Nuove letture dantesche II. Firenze, 1968. Pp. 75-86.

LbIIIB.59. Popolizio, Stephen. 'Literary Reminiscences and the Act of Reading in Inferno V'. Dante Studies 98 (1980), 19-33.

LbIIIB.60. Quasimodo, Salvatore. 'BL'. Il poeta e il politico e altri saggi. Milano: Schwarz, 1960. Pp. 152-63.
Compares Dante to Aeschylus, both dying in exile. Otherwise, a literary analysis of Inf. XV.

LbIIIB.61. Reynolds, Barbara. Dante: The Poet, the Political Thinker, the Man. London: Tauris, 2006.
Fine, general discussion

LbIIIB.62. Rossetti, Gabriel. La 'DC' di DA con commento analitico. London: John Murray, 1826. II, pp. 63-75.
Reproves DA for denigrating his master, BL. Observes 'i sodomiti son figure di Guelfi attivi', p. 75. (Rossetti, exiled in England, teaching at University of London, is father of Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti.)

LbIIIB.63. Rossi, Vittorio. Il canto XV dell''Inferno', letto nella 'Casa di Dante' in Roma. Firenze: Sansoni, 1915. Lectura Dantis.
An elegant lecture.

LbIIIB.64. Salsano, Fernando. Il Canto XV dell''Inferno'. Torino: Società Editrice Internazionale, 1967. Lectura Dantis Romana.
Standard study, cites previous scholarship. Relates BL and Virgil.

LbIIIB.65. Sarteschi, Selene. 'Dal "Tesoretto" alla "Commedia": considerazioni su alcune riprese dantesche dal testo di BL'. Rassegna europea di letteratura italiana 19 (2002), 19-44.
Compares Tesoretto, Inferno I, Natura and Beatrice.

LbIIIB.66. Sarteschi, Selene. 'Uno scaffale della biblioteca volgare di Dante: dalla "Rettorica" di BL alla "VN"'. Leggere Dante. A cura di Lucia Battaglia Ricci. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2003. Pp. 171-190.
On similar language in Rettorica, Vita Nuova.

LbIIIB.67. Saivano, Riccardo. 'Inf. XV. Dante e Brunetto'. Bibliologia e critica dantesca. Saggi dedicati a Enzo Esposito. A cura di Vincenzo Gregorio. II. Saggi Danteschi. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 1997.
Lectura dantis.

LbIIIB.68. Sansone, Giuseppe E. 'Il nome disseminato, Brunetto, Bondie, Dante'. La Parola del Testo 2:1 (1998), 9-20.
Sees anagrammes of names in poems. But Brunetto wrote his name often as 'burnecto'.

*LvIIIB.69. Sarteschi, Selene. 'Dal "Tesoretto" alla "Commedia". Considerazone in alcune riprese dal testo di Brunetto Latini'. Rassegna Europea di Letteratura Italiana 19 (2002), 19-44.

LbIIIB.70. °Sayers, Dorothy L. trans. The Divine Comedy. I. Hell. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1949. Pp. 165-67. Penguin Classics.
Very brief mention. Like Kay, erroneously consideres Tesoretto to be Italian Tresor. But its form is very different, though its subject matter is similarly encyclopedic.

LbIIIB.71. Scuderi, Ermanno. 'Boezio e Brunetto "maestri" di Dante'. Studi su Dante. A cura di Ermanno Scuderi. Catania: Aldo Marino Editore, 1979. Pp. 53-61.

*LbIIIB.72. Segre, Cesare. 'Canto XV'. Lectura Dantis Neapolitana. Inferno. Napoli: Loffedo, 1986. Pp. 259-268.

LbIIIB.73. Seriacopi, Massimo. 'BL: "cara e buona immagine paterna'. Sotto il Velame, n.s. 1 (1999), 169-178.
Slight.

LbIIIB.74. °Shapiro, Marianne. 'Brunetto's Race (Inf. XV)'. DaSt 95 (1977), 153-55.
Relates BL's palio to Convivio IV.xxii.6 and Galatians 3.23-25.

LbIIIB.75. Sinclair, John D. The 'DC' of DA with Translation and Comment. London: Bodley Head, 1939. I, pp. 200-03.
Vague, standard commentary.

LbIIIB.76. °Singleton, Charles S. The 'DC', 'Inferno'. Commentary. Princeton: University Press, 1970. Bollingen Series 80. II.253-73, esp. 255-56.

LbIIIB.77. Sowell, Madison U. 'Brunetto's "Tesoro" in Dante's "Inferno"'. Lectura Dantis 7 (1990), 60-71.
Believes Tesoro of Inf. XV is Tesoretto.

*LbIIIB.78. Sulowski, J. 'Czy Dante bez zastrezen wyslawua BLego x XV piesni pickla?' Kwartalnik Historii Nauki 1 (1987), 189-194.

LbIIIB.79. Todeschini, Giuseppe. Scritti su Dante. A cura di Bartolomeo Bressan. Vicenza: Burato, 1872.
Notes divisions of Hell according to Aristotle's Ethics, I.77.  Gives linguistic analysis of parts of Inf. XV. Notes that Verona palio is pagan and indecent on first day of Lent, II.362-68.

LbIIIB.80. Torraca, Francesco. 'Il Canto V dell'Inferno'. NA 1 (16 luglio 1902). Also in StD. Napoli: Perella, 1912. Pp. 383-442.
Cited, Dante Della Terza, 'Inferno V: Tradition and Exegesis', DaSt 99 (1981), 59, 65, who notes that D'Annunzio, Francesca da Rimini, 1902 (Ld.2), got from these writings by Torraca the idea of DA and Guido Cavalcanti meeting Paolo Malatesta of Rimini, the Florentine podestà in 1283, in BL's house. See also D'Annunzio, Le dit du sord et mvet (Ld.1).

LbIIIB.81. Toynbee, Paget. Dictionary of Proper Names and Notable Matters in the Works of Dante. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914. Revised, Charles Singleton, 1968. Pp. 113-16.

LbIIIB.82. Wilkins, Hatch & Thomas Goddard Bergin. A Concordance to the 'DC' of DA. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1965. P. 72.
Notes that BL is named three times, lines 30, 32, 101, in Inf. XV.

LbIIIB.83. Zingarelli, Nicola. Il canto XV del''Inferno', letto nella Sala di Dante in Orsanmichele. Firenze: Sansoni, 1900, rpt. 1921. Lectura Dantis. Also in Studi letterari: miscellanea in onore di Emilio Santini. Palermo: Manfredi, 1956.


LbIV. Reasons for Dante's Punishment of BL in Inferno XV

See also the Società Dantesca Italiana Bibliography, 'Brunetto Latini' http://notes.leonet.it/sdi/bibliografia.nsf/frasetSEARCH

*LbIV.1. Ahern, John. 'Nudi grammantes. The Grammar and Rhetoric of Deviation in Inf. XV'. Romanic Review 81.4 (1990), 466-486.

*LbIV.2. Ahern, John. 'Troping the Fig. Inf. XV.66'. Lectura Dantis 6 (1990), 80-91.

LbIV.3. Armour, Peter. 'Dante's Brunetto: The Paternal Paterine?' Italian Studies 38 (1983), 1-38

LbIV.4. Armour, Peter. 'The Love of Two Florentines: BL and Bondie Dietaiuti'. Lectura Dantis 9 (1991, Fall), 11-33.
Argues for Siculo-Tuscan theme of their poems to love of 'lo bianco fioreauliso, pome aulente', Florence, from which they are exiled. Notes use of bestiary material. Close discussion of poems and Favolello as tenzoni.

LbIV.5. Aroux, Eugène. Dante hérétique, révolutionnaire e socialiste: révélations d'un catholique sur le Moyen Age. Paris: Renouard, 1854. Pp. 132-33.
Believes Dante equates Rome with Sodom and therefore punishes BL for his religious orthodoxy as sodomy. Scherillo (E) comments on Aroux' bizarre interpretation.

LbIV.6. Avalle D'Arco, Silvio. Ai luoghi di delizia pieni: Saggio sulla lirica italiana del XIII secolo. Milano: Ricciardi, 1977. Pp. 87-106 e 191-197.
Discusses lyrics in the light of Andreas Capellanus, important for Brunetto Latino, Rustico Filippi. Bondie Dietaiuti. Notes Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS Pal. Banco Rari 217 'Riccucio de Florençia'.

*LbIV.7. Basile, Deana. 'Il peccato di Brunetto Latini. Il guardare fisso nel "Tesoretto" e nella "Commedia"'. Romance Review 4.1 (1994), 7-18.

LbIV.8. Bisson, Lillian. 'BL as a Failed Mentor'. MH, 18 (1992), 1-15.
Sees BL's sin as intellectual, not physical. Relates to figure of Grammar. Notes BL's quest for fame, Cacciaguida's for truth.

LbIV.9. Boswell, John. 'Dante and the Sodomites'. DaSt, 112 (1994), 63-76.

LbIV.10. °'BL' Enciclopedia dantesca. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 1976. V.285-287.

*LbIV.11. Camille, Michael. 'The Pose of the Queer: Dante's Gaze, BL's Body'. Queering the Middle Ages. Ed. Glen Burger and Seven F. Kruger. Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 2001. Pp. 57-86.

LbIV.12. Chiampi, James T. 'Ser Brunetto, scriba and litterato'. Rivista di Studi italiani, 1 (2000), 1-25.
Discusses, in English, 'Dark Language' of Inf. XV. Perceives BL negatively.

LbIV.13. °Ciarfardini, Emanuele. 'La colpa di Brunetto'. RCLI 27 (1922), 157-75. Rpbl. Napoli, 1922, as separately paginated offprint.
Counters Merlo (LbIV). Fine essay.

LbIV.14. Contrada, Deborah L. 'Brunetto's Sin: Ten Years of Criticism (1977-1986)'. Dante. Summa Medievalis. Proceedings of the Symposium of the Center for Italian Studies, SUNY Stony Brook.  Stony Brook, N.Y. : Forum Italicum, 1995. Pp. 192-175.
Discusses Lectura Dantis, Inf. XV for 1977-1986.

LbIV.15. Costa, Elio. 'From locus amoris to infernal Pentecost: The Sin of BL'. Quaderni d'italianistica 10:1-2 (Spring-Fall 1989), 109-132.
Discusses BL, DA in relation to Tesoretto, Montaperti.

*LbIV.16. Cusani, Emma. 'Canto XV. La sodomia dantesca'. Il grande viaggio nei mondi danteschi. Napoli: Edizione Humanitas, 1968/1993. Pp. 293-315.

LbIV.17. Dall'Orto, Giovanni. 'L'omosessualità nella poesia volgare italiana fino al tempo di Dante'. Sodoma 3 (Primavera Estate 1986), 13-35.

LbIV.18. D'Andria, Michele. 'BL sotto la pioggia di fuoco, per dispregio del patria idioma'. Il volo cosmico di Dante propellente Beatrice e altri saggi per un nuovo Commento della Divina Commedia. Roma: Edizione dell'Ateneo, 1985. Pp. 215-220.
Notes Francesco d'Accorso and Andrea de' Mozzi's sojourns in England.

LbIV.19. Davis, Charles. 'BL and Dante'. Studi medievali, 2 (1967), 421-450.

LbIV.20. Desideri, Giovanella. '"Quelli che vince, non colui che perde" Brunetto nell'immaginario dantesco; La forza di fortuna" a chiarmaneto di un ambiguo luogo testuale'. A scuola con Ser Brunetto, ed. Maffia Scariati (Db.4), 381-400.
Fortuna in BL and DA.

*LbIV.21. Everson, Jane. 'Lost in transit: Dante's dialogue with BL and its English Translations 1805-1995'. Scenes of Change: Studies in Cultural Transitions. Ed. Carla Dente Baschiera and Jane Everson. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 1996. Pp. 155-177.

*LbIV.22. Filomusi Guelfi, Francesco. Nuovi studi su Dante. Città di Castello: Lapi, 1911. Pp. 165-72.
Cited, Testa (Da), #31, p. 92. 

LbIV.23. Fornari, Pasquale. Dante e Brunetto con nuova interpretazioni dei canti XV e XVI dell'Inferno. Varese: Cooperativa Varesina, 1911. Rpbl. in: Pro Dantis virtute et honore, Varese: Cooperativa Varesina, 1911.

LbIV.24. Gagliardi, Antonio. Ulisse e Sigieri di Brabante: Richerche su Dante. Catanzaro: Pullano Editore, 1992. Pp. 126-132.
DA rejects BL on fame, astrology.

LbIV.25. °Giacomelli, Marco, avv. 'In difesa de Ser BL'. Dante Studies: I Dante in the Twentieth Century. Boston: Dante University of America Press, 1982. Pp. 99-107.
Defends BL against charge of sodomy, categorizes him as blasphemer.

LbIV.26. °Guerra D'Antoni, Francesca. Dante's Burning Sands: Some New Perspectives. New York: Peter Lang, 1991. Studies in Italian Culture, Literature in History 4. Ed. Aldo Scaglione.
Argues for sin of usury as reason for punishment.

LbIV.27. Harris, John. 'Three Dante Notes (I: Brunetto the sodomite)'. Lectura Dantis Online 2 (1988, Spring).
Brilliant essay, especially on clothing motifs.

LbIV.28. Hollander, John. 'Dante's Harmonious Homosexuals (Inferno 16.7-90)'. Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America (1996).

*LbIV.29. Holzinger, Bruce W. 'Sodomy and Resurrection: The homo-erotic subject of the Divine Comedy'. Premodern Sexualities. Ed. Louise Fradenburg and Carla Freccero. London: Routledge, 1996.

*LbIV.30. Ianucci, Amilcare. 'Autoesegesi dantesca: la tecnica dell'episodio parallelo (Inf. XV, Par. XI )'. Forma ed evento nella D.C. Roma: Bulzoni, 1984.
Cited,
Contrada (LbIV ).

LbIV.31. °Ianucci, Amilcare. 'Brunetto Latini: "Come l'uon s'etterna"'. NEMLA Italian Studies 1 (1979), 17-20.

LbIV.32. °Kay, Richard. Dante's Swift and Strong. Essays on "Inferno" XV. Lawrence: The Regents Press of Kansas, 1978. 
Discusses BL and Inf. XV without making use of Tesoretto. Interested in historical context rather than literary text. Believes DA punishes BL for being a Guelf, supporter of the Republican comune, rather than a Ghibelline supporter of the Empire.

LbIV.32.Rev.1. Baldassaro, Lawrence. It 39 (1982), 55-57.

LbIV.32.Rev.2. °Bolton Holloway, Julia. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 46 (1978), 611.

LbIV.32.Rev.3. Herzman, Ronald B. Modern Philology 78 (1980-81), 75-78.

LbIV.32.Rev.4. Kirkpatrick, Robin. MLR 75 (1980), 416-17.

LbIV.32.Rev.5. Scaglione, Aldo. RPh 24 (1981-82), 38-39.

        LbIV.32.Rev.6. Tuck, Jonathan S. 'Veteris vestigia fiammae: Dante and Sodom'. University Publishing 9 (1980), 10-11.

LbIV.33. Kay, Richard. 'Dante's Unnatural Lawyer: Francesco d'Accorso in Inferno XV'. In Post Scripta: Essays on Medieval Law and the Emergence of the European State in Honor of Gaines Post. Ed, Joseph E. Strayer and Donald E. Queller. Roma: Studia Gratiana 15, pp. 147-200.
On his loans at usury to his students.

LbIV.34. °Kay, Richard. 'The Sin of BL', Mediaeval Studies, 31 (1969), 262-286.

LbIV.35. Kay, Richard. 'The Sin(s) of BL'. DaSt, 112 (1994), 19-31.
Kay gives further bibliography, pp. 29-31.

*LbIV.36. Kirkpatrick, Robin. Dante's Inferno, Difficulty and Dead Poetry. Cambridge: University Press, 1987.

*LbIV.37. Lanza, Adriano. 'BL e la sodomia (Canto XV)'. Dante all'Inferno. [?] 1999. Pp. 117-133.

*LbIV.38. Mannot, R. 'Le Péchée de BL'. Langues Néo-Latines 4 (1955).
Cited, Mattalía (E).

LbIV.39. Merlo, Pietro. 'E se Dante avesse collocato BL tra gli uomini irreligiosi e non tra i sodomiti?', La cultura, anno 3, vol. 5 (1884), 774-784.

*LbIV.40. Merlo, Pietro. 'BL'. Saggi glottologici e letterari, Hoepli: Milano, 1890, II, pp. 111-127.

LbIV.41. Montanari, Fausto. 'BL'. CeS 4, nos 13-14 (1965), 471-475.
Reviews scholarship on sodomy debate. Discusses Inf. XV more than BL.

*LbIV.42. Morvidi, L. 'Difesa di BL'. Sodomiti e simoniaci [?] 1972. Pp. 3-24.

*LbIV.43. Murescu, Gabriele. 'Il bando dell'umana natura ("Inf." XV.80-81)'. Sylva. 2002. I.109-114.

LbIV.44. °Mussetter, Sally. '"Ritornare a lo principio": Dante and the Sin of BL'. PQ 63 (1984), 431-448.
Countering Pézard, Kay
.

LbIV.45. Pârvulescu, Titus. '"Siete voi qui, ser Brunetto?" Inferno XV, 30'. Studi despre Dante. A cura di Alexandru Balaci. Bucuresti: Editura pentru literatură universală, 1965. Pp. 115-153.
Widely read in primary, secondary literature, excellent essay.

*LbIV.46. Payton, Rodney J. 'Canto XV. BL: Sins against Nature'. A Modern Reader's Guide to Dante's The Divine Comedy. Ed. Joseph Gallagher, John Freccero. [?] 1992. Pp. 117-128.

*LbIV.47. Pequigney, Joseph. 'Sodomy in Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio'. Representations 36 (Fall 1991), 22- 42.

LbIV.48. Pézard, André. Dante sous la pluie de feu: Chant XVI. Paris: Vrin, 1950.
Pézard began by studying the concept of crusade in DC, but finding BL in G. Villani's Cronica, decided to study his influence upon the poem instead. Found no evidence for sodomy charge. Argued that DA condemned BL for betraying Italian language. Perticari had made same claim (H ). Actually, the trilingual BL wrote mainly in Italian.

*LbIV.48.Rev.1. Belfagor 6 (1950), 190-95.
Cited YWMLS.

LbIV.48.Rev.2. Esposito, E. Gli studi danteschi dal 1950 al 1964. Roma: Centro Editoriale Internazionale, 1965. Pp. 251-55.

LbIV.48.Rev.3. Masseron, Alexandre. 'BL rehabilité?' Les Lettres Romanes 5 (1951), 99-128.

*LbIV.48.Rev.4. Mazzoni, Francesco. StD 30 (1951), 278-84.

*LbIV.48.5 Response to reviews. Pézard, André. Cahiers du Sud 38, no 308 (1951), 35-38.

LbIV.48.Rev.6. Portier, L. Revue des Etudes italiennes, n.s. 1 (1954), 5-19.
Supports Pézard.

LbIV.48.Rev.7. Renaudet, Augustin. 'Dante sous la pluie de feu'. Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance 7 (1949), 172-82. Rpbl. in his Humanisme et Renaissance. Geneva: Droz, 1958. Pp. 24-31.

LbIV.49. Punzo, Giorgio. 'Nota sull'Episodio di BL'. Estratto dal volume Lettere Erotologiche. Napoli: Carlo Martello, 1956. Pp. 319-326.
Psychiatric, theological discussion.

LbIV.50. Rossi, Luciano. 'Brunetto, Bondie, Dante e il tema dell'esilio'. Feconde venner le carte: Studi in onore di Ottavio Besomi. A cura di Tatiana Crivelli. Bellinzona: Casagrande, 1995. Pp. 173-189.
Discusses sonnets and tenzoni, including those of Rustico di Filippo, Palamidesse di Bellindote, Ser Guiglielmo Beroardi, speaking of Ciceronian 'societas amicorum'.

LbIV.51. Salsano, Fernando. La coda di Minosse e altri saggi danteschi. Milano: Marzorati, 1969. Pp. 21-84.
Two essays on BL, the first awkwardly organized, the second a fine explication of BL's and DA's statements concerning exile and Florence in Inf. XV.

LbIV.52. Salsano, Fernando. Personaggi delle "Divina Commedia". Cassino : Sangermano Editoriale, 1984. Pp. 97-115.
Reads BL negatively.

LvIV.53. Sanguinetti, Federico. 'Quello che mai non fue detto'. A scuola con Ser Brunetto, ed. Maffia Scariati (Db.4), 373-380.
On feminism in Tesoretto, Commedia, figures of Natura, Beatrice, rejected by male scholars.

*LbIV.54. Santangelo, Rosanna. '"Tutti cherci e litterati grandi e di gran fama": BL e l'omosessualità intellettuale'. Il sogno della farfalla. Rivista di psicoanalisi 3 (1994), 23-36.

*LbIV.55. Schapp. Jeffrey T. 'Dante's Sexual Solecisms: Gender and Genre in the Commedia'. The New Medievalism. Ed. Marina S. Brownlee, Kevin Brownlee and Stephen G. Nichols. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. Pp. 200-225.
Cited, Chiampi (LbIII).

*LbIV.56. Pugh, William White Tyson. 'Dante's Poetic of Corruption: Cantos XV and XVI of the Inferno'. Romance Notes 40 (1999), 3-12.

LbIV.57. Vance, Eugene. 'The Differing Seed: Dante's BL'. Mervelous Signals: Poetics and Sign Theory in the Middle Ages. Nebraska: University Press, 1986. Pp. 230-55.
Excellent discussion.

LbIV.58. Verdicchio, Massimo. 'Re-reading BL and "Inferno" XV'. Quaderni di Italianistica 21 (1990), 61-81.
Proclaims BL not DA's teacher, condemns him for sodomy and hypocrisy.

*LbIV.59. Vesce, Thomas. 'BL' Sin: False Rhetoric'.
Cited,
Contrada (LbIV).

LbIV.60. Wilhelm, James J. 'Dante's "Two Families": Christian Judgment and the Pagan Past'. It 47 (1970), 28-36.
Notes BL's world is that of the pagan palestra, p. 33.

Lc. Medieval and Renaissance Influence

LcI. Italy

See Novati, La giovinezza di Coluccio Salutati (F106). Also La, b.

LcI.1 Bartuschat, Johannes. 'La forma allegorica del "Tesoretto" e il "Dittamondo" di Fazio degli Uberti'. A scuola con Ser Brunetto, ed. Maffia Scariati (Db.4), 417-435.

LcI.2. Fazio degli Uberti. Il dittamondo. A cura di Vincenzo Monti. Milano: Silvestri, 1826.
Imitation of BL and DA. More like Tesoretto than DC. Set in 1367, when exiled from Florence. Ptolemy and Solinus are his guides. Encyclopedic, didactic work.

LcI.3. Federigo Frezzi. Il quadriregio. A cura di Enrico Filippini. Bari: Laterza, 1914.
A terza rima moral allegory.

LcI.4. Imbert, C. 'Quelques rêves politiques du Trecento: Fazio degli Uberti, Biondo di Cione, Simone Serdini'. Songes et Songuers (XIIIe-XVIII° siècle). Ed. N. Dauvois, J.P. Grosperrin. Universitçé de Laval: Presses de l'Université de Laval, 2003. Pp. 69-84.

LcI.5. Maffia Scariati, Irene. 'La "Descriptio Puellae" dalla tradizione mediolatina a quella umanistica, Elena, Isott e le altre.' A scuola con Ser Brunetto, ed. Maffia Scariati (Db.4), 437-490.
Careful analysis of rhetorical descriptions of beautiful women through time.

LcI.6. Picone, Michelangelo. 'Brunetto fra Dante e Petrarca'.
A scuola con Ser Brunetto, ed. Maffia Scariati (Db.4.), 401-415.
Discusses influence on Petrarch's Triumphi.

LcII. France and Outremer

LcII.1. Assises de Jérusalem. In Recueil des Histoires des Croisades: Lois. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1861.
Chapter CCLXXXII, CCLXXXIII has interpolations from Tresor on government of a city by a copyist, likely on Cyprus, describing Assises de la Haut Cour and Assises de la Cour des Bourgeois of Godfrey of Bouillon's government in Outremer. BL may also have influenced Jean d'Antioch. We recall there are early Tresor MSS with possible Outremer provenance, Bodleian Douce (AbI.22), perhaps from Acre, Bibliothèque Nationale fr. 2024 (AbI.73), said by Segre-Amar to be Outremer, while Ferrara (BbI.31) speaks of Jerusalem pilgrimage. Is it possible the silent years in BL's life included his presence there?

LcII.2. Chartier, Alain. L'Espérance, ou Consolation des trois vertus. Les Oeuvres. Paris: Pierre le-Mur, 1617. Rprt. Geneva: Slatkine, 1975. P. 362.
Lists historians, Homer, Virgil, Livy, Orosius, Statius, Lucan, Julius Caesar, 'Brunet Latin', Vincent [de Beauvais], who lengthened their brief lives by writing and fame.

LcII.3. Morawski, J. 'Quelques sources méconnues du Roman de Renart le contrefait'. ZRP 49 (1929), 536-42.
Discusses BL, Tresor, as source, pp. 538-42.


LcIII. England

LcIII.1. °Bennett, J.A.W. 'Chaucer, Dante and Boccaccio'. In Chaucer and the Italian Trecento. Ed. Piero Boitani. Cambridge: University Press, 1983. Pp. 89-113.
Argues that Dante's influence on T.S. Eliot is greater than Chaucer's.

LcIII.2. °Bolton Holloway, Julia. 'Brunetto Latini and England'. Manuscripta 31 (1987), 11-21.

LcIII.3. °Geoffrey Chaucer. The House of Fame. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Ed. F.N. Robinson. Boston: Houghtom Mifflin, 1957.
The two poems, Tesoretto and House of Fame, are similarly palinodes against fame, and similarly are half-told tales. Works discussing House of Fame are

LcIII.3.1 °Bennett, J.A.W. Chaucer's Book of Fame: An Exposition of 'The House of Fame'. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968.
Presents a careful analysis of the classical and medieval sources of Chaucer's poem, including Boethius, Vincent of Beauvais and BL, pp. 85, 130.

LcIII.3.2 Chiarini, Gino. Dante e una visione inglese del Trecento. Roma: Società Editrice Dante Alighieri, 1901.
Good study. Notes Chaucer's 'fantastico a giocoso' imitation of Dante. Omits BL.

LcIII.3.3 Koonce, B.G. Chaucer and the Tradition of Fame: Symbolism in the House of Fame. Princeton: University Press, 1966.

LcIII.3.4 °Sypherd, Wilbur Owen. Studies in Chaucer's House of Fame. New York: Haskell House, 1965.
Argues for French, rather than Italian, influence.

LcIII.4. The English Works of John Gower. Ed. G.C. Macaulay. London: Early English Text Society, 1900-1901. II.233-385.
See Murphy (F).

LcIII.5 *Jordan, R.D. 'Spenser's "Holinesse" and BL's Concept of 'Beatitude'. Notes and Queries. N.S. 3, 31 (1984), 175-8.
Cited,
Contrada (LbIV).

LcIII.6. Plimpton, George A. The Education of Chaucer. London: Oxford University Press, 1935.
Pp. 112-13, pl. xxv, reproduces Le Livres dou Tresor, Plimpton 281. See BbI.45.

LcIII.7. °Watt, Diane. 'Literary genealogy, virile rhetoric and John Gower's Confessio Amantis'. PQ 78.1 (1998), 13-34.
Influence of Latino on rhetoric on Gower.

Chaucer could have discussed and shared BL MSS with Gower, of which there were two in England. Tresor was disseminated from the Squire and Chaucer's 'Artois and Picardie'.

LcIV. Spain

See also BbIII.2-21, C.80, 86, 90, 92, 98, Jc, Ka, on Alfonso, BL and Enrique de Villena, the Spanish translator of Dante.

LcIV.1. Labandeira Fernández, Amancio. 'Un cronista español del siglo XV entre la ciencia de BL y la nobleza de Suero de Quiñones'. Revista de Archivos, Bibliotecas y Museos 29 (1976), 73-95.
BL's Tesoro influences Passo Honroso (see Walsh, Deyermond, Jc).

LcIV.2. °López Estrada, Francisco. 'Sobre la difusión del Tesoro de BL en España'. Gessamelte Aufsätz zur Kulturgeschichte Spaniens 16 (1960), 137-52.
Discusses one MS of Castilian translation of Tresor at Seville, BbIII.7, rather than title's stated topic. I found MS now ruined by damp and unreadable.

LcIV.3. °Russell, P.E. and A.R.D. Pagden. 'Nueva luz sobre una version española cuatrocentista de la Etica a Nicomaco: Bodleian Library, M Span. D.1'. Homanaje a Guillermo Guastavino: Miscelánea de estudios en al año de su jubilación como Director de la Biblioteca National. Madrid: Associación Nacional de Bibliotecarios y Arqueólogos, 1974. Pp. 125-46.

LcIV.4. 'Tratado de astrologia' attribuido a Enrique de Villena. Ed. Pedro M. Cátedra & Julio Samsó. Barcelona: Humanitas, 1983. Biblioteca Humanitas de Historia del Pensamentio. Historia de la Ciencia y de la Técnica.
A 15 C text possibly based on a work by Enrique de Villena, but certainly not by him in its present form. Tresor (presumably in its Castilian translation) was one of the sources, and many footnotes indicate specific debts. An excellent scholarly edition, packed with information about the history of astrological ideas and BL's part in that transmission. A first edition (Barcelona: Rio Tinto Minera, 1980) was privately distributed.

Ld. Modern Influence

Ld.1. °D'Annunzio, Gabriele. Le dit dv sovrd et mvet qui fut miraculé en l'an de grace 1266: Les trois livres obscurs de BL. Roma: L'Oleandro, 1936.
Photocopy. He speaks of Ernesto Monaci and Gaston Paris as his teachers, directing his thesis on Chanson de Roland, Lai d'Eliduc, Lai d'Aristote, Roman de la Rose, Li Livres du Tresor de Brunet Latin.

Ld.2. D'Annunzio, Gabriele. Francesca da Rimini: tragedia rappresentata in Roma nell'anno MCMI a di IX del mese di Decembre. Milano: Treves, 1902.
Has DA and Guido Cavalcanti meet Paolo Malatesta in BL's house.

Ld.3. Eliot, Thomas Stearns. 'Little Gidding'. Four Quartets. In Collected Poems, 1909-1962. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970. Pp. 200-09.

Ld.4. Gardner, Dame Helen. The Composition of 'Four Quartets'. London: Faber & Faber, 1977. Pp. 63-69, 174-81.
Notes, p. 21, that 'Little Gidding', dedicated to the fourth element, fire (of which BL had discourses in both Tresor and Tesoretto and amidst which he races in Inf. XV), included 'Ser Brunetto' in the original version's wording for line 98. The 'dead master', however is not so much DA's BL, as Eliot's Yeats, the lines being first written on the back of his Yeats lecture given in Dublin, June 1940. Further manifestation of Harold Bloom's 'Anxiety of Influence' among writers.

Ld.4.Rev. Litz, Walton A. 'From Burnt Norton to Little Gidding: The Making of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets'. Review 2 (1980), 1-18.
Discusses reference to BL.

Ld.5. °Joyce, James. Giacomo Joyce. New York: Viking, 1958. Ed. Richard  Ellmann. Pp. xxxvi & 15.
Quotes from Il libro delle bestie (C.58) of BL on basilisk: 'E col suo vedere attosca l'uomo quando lo vede. I thank you for the word, messer Brunetto'. See Ellmann's note , p. xxvi, which does not give the particular edition Joyce used, B48, which Joyce may have bought for his children in Trieste. The Libro delle bestie is included in Joyce's Trieste inventory of books.

Ld.6. °Joyce, James. Ulysses. New York: Random House, 1961. P. 194.
'Stephen withstood the bane of miscreant eyes, glinting stern under wrinkled brows. A basilisk. E quando vede l'uomo l'attosca. Messer Brunetto, I thank thee for the word'. There are usful discussions in:

Ld.6.1 Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. New York: Oxford University Press, 1959.
Catalogues Trieste books, p. 795.

Ld.6.2 Gifford, Don. Notes for Joyce: An Annotation of James Joyce's Ulysses. New York: Dutton, 1974.
P. 176, #192: 10-11 (194:21-22), omitting B48.

Ld.6.3 Weldon, Thornten. Allusions in Ulysses. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961. Rprt. 1968. P. 176.
Refers to another edition than C.58.

Ld.7. Lobner, Corinna del Greco. 'The Metaphysics of Brunetto's Basilisk in "Scylla Charbydis"'. James Joyce Quarterly 15 (1978), 134-37.
Discusses use of Tresor basilisk in Ulysses (Bloom's 'Anxiety' principle).

Ld.8. Nagy, Maria von. Dante und Brunetto: Vorspiel zum letzten Fresko von Giotto. Trans. from Hungarian, Marcelle Probat. Berne: Francke, 1974.
A charming, Victorian-like pay in which BL is shown with Alfonso el Sabio, the Sire de Joinville: pairs Dante and Guido Cavalcanti as BL's students. See also Ld1 on Gabriel D'Annunzio's similar use of BL, DA and Guido Cavalcanti in Francesca da Rimini.

*Ld.9. Paulhan, Jean. Les fleurs de Tarbes ou La terreur dans les Lettres. Paris: Gallimard, 1941.
Extracts Brunetto Latini in appendix.

*Ld.10. Perelman, Chaim and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca. Traité de l'argumentation: La nouvelle rhétorique. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1958.
After encountering excerpt of Brunetto Latini in the appendix of Jean Paulhan’s Les fleurs de Tarbes, Perelman and Olbrecht-Tyteca began researching ancient Greco-Latin val
ues in rhetoric, eschewing positivism and radical relativism for the 'New Rhetoric'.

°Ld.11. Steiner, Rudolf.
'Brunetto Latini'. Lecture given at Dornach, January 30, 1915. http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/19150130p01.html
Discusses Tesoretto as spiritual Initiation, next taught to Dante.

M. Biography and Chronology

The family of Brunetto Bonacorsi Latino came from La Lastra or Lastra alla Loggia, nearby Fiesole, where his father and brother Michael worked in the Bishop of Fiesole's Curia. The church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Florence has a monument to BL and his family that would originally have been in the cemetery surrounding Santa Maria Reparata. It consists of a column (perhaps in recognition of his notarial sign, a column and fountain?), upon which is a shield with six roses, arms given to his son at Naples. A later inscription by the tomb speaks of him in Latin as the teacher of Dante and Guido Cavalcanti. F. Villani gives a Latin vita. So also does Bandini's Catalogus (BgI). Davidsohn (F) and Carmody (C.63) are especially good on dates in connection with BL. Carmody, p. xvi. from Schirrmacher (M), notes that BL would have visited Alfonso el Sabio not at Toledo but at Seville or Còrdoba. See, above all, Sundby (E). LbIIIA, early commentaries on Inferno XV, frequently give biographical material on BL, though sometimes this is subject to distortion. However, Giovanni Villani's Cronica may be trusted. Harting (M) discusses a letter from Bar-sur-Aube. While this, like the Vatican letter from Arras, is genuine, it is important to view with suspicion the flurry of material on BL in Gentlemen's Monthly Magazine (1802), published in order to raise the value of the MS that became Oxford, Douce 319 (BbI.22). Raccolta di rime antiche toscane (C.18), I.105, publishes a charming sonnet on the death of BL, speaking of him as a pilgrim and likewise the mourning sonneteer.

See also section F, and the following individual entries: Schiaffini (F), Zannoni (C.19), pp. vi-xxviii, Sundby (E), Wieruszowski (C.71), Davidsohn (F), Scherillo (E). Lives of Dante likewise note that he was a student of BL. See, for instance, Raccolta (C.18), p. 5. The most important dates: birthdate unknown; Alfonso elected Emperor, though election not ratified, 1257; Battle of Montaperti, 1260; BL in Spain and France, 1260-67; Battle of Benevento, 1267; Florence Guelf again, 1267; BL, Chancellor for Florence, 1272-74, death, 1294.

Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Plut. 42.19, Brunetto Latino, IlTesoro, fol. 72 , sec. XIII-XIV

*M.1. Arnaud, J. Les italiens prosateurs français: études sur les émigrations italiennes depuis BL. Milan: Salvi, 1861.
Cited, Testa (Da), #3, p. 80.

M.2. Armour, Peter. 'Brunetto, the Stoic Pessimist'. DaSt 112 (1994), 1-18.
Notes BL's tomb, now in Santa Maria Maggiore, would originally have been by Baptistry.

M.3. Balbo, Cesare. Vita di Dante. Torino: Giuseppe Pomba, 1839. I.47.
Discusses Dante, orphaned at 8, taken by his mother, Bella, to study with BL, his guardian, cites Leonardo Bruno Aretino.

M.4. °Barbi, Michele. Life of Dante. Trans. Paul G. Ruggiers. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1954. P. 4.
On BL as DA's teacher.

M.5. Calenda, Corrado. '"Esilio" ed "esclusione" tra biografismo e mentalità collettiva: Brunetto Latini, Guittone d'Arezzo, Guido Cavalcante'. L'exil e l'esclusione tra biografismo e mentalità. Actes du colloque franco-italien Aix-en-Provence 19-20-21 octobre 1989. Aix-en-Provence: Publication de l'université de Provence, 1991. Pp. 41-48.

M.6. Carrai, Stefano. 'La lirica anteriore allo stilnuovo'. Li lirica toscana del Duecento. Bari: Laterza, 1997.
Brief mention of
BL, tenzone.

M.7. Cella, Roberta. 'Gli atti rogati da Brunetto Latini in Francia (tra politica e mercatura, con qualche implicazione letteraria)'. Nuova rivista di letteratura italiana 6:1-2 (2003), 367-408.
Claims to be first to publish Westminster Abbey Muniment 12843. But see Bolton Holloway (E), from Scott (M).

M.7.Rev. Maffia Scariati, Irene. In SPCT 71 (2005), 245-251.
Detailed account of banking/poetry, Guglielmo Beroardi, Palamidesse di Bellindotti, etc.

M.8. Coppo, Stefani. Istoria fiorentina. In Delizie degli eruditi toscani. Firenze: Cambiagi, 1776. Vol. VII.
Similar to Sallust and Geoffrey of Monmouth. Discusses Tesauro de Beccaria, p. 118, BL, p. 137.

M.9. °Del Lungo, Isidoro. Dino Compagni e la sua 'Cronica'. Firenze: Le Monnier, 1879. 3 vols.
Excellent general biography, giving archival material, with references. Stresses relationship of Guido Cavalcanti and BL.

M.10. Farinelli, Arturo. Dante e la Francia: dall'età media al secolo di Voltaire. Milan: Hoepli, 1908. 2 vols. Rpt. Geneva: Skatline, 1971.
Does not relate Tesoretto to Commedia but often mentions BL.

M.11. °Frati, Lodovico. 'BL Speziale'. GD 22 (1914), 207-09.
On Bolognan mercantile contracts concerning spices and herbs entered into by BL and his sons. Mentions his children, Biancia, Perso, Bartolo, and Bechus or Bonachus. Suggests DA was also a spice merchant rather than medicus in guild 'Arte degli speziale'.

M.12. Harting, J.E, 'BL in France'. Ath 3655 (13 November 1897), p. 674.
Discusses letter from BL at Bar-sur-Aube while in exile. This correspondence in the °Athenaeum continued by Paget Toynbee, J.F. Hogan (20 November 1897). See also preface, A.

M.13. Imbriani, Vittorio. 'Dimostrazione che BL non fu maestro di Dante'. Giornale napoletano di filosofia e lettere. A VII (1878). 1-24, 169, 198. Rpt. as °'Che BL non fu maestro di Dante'. StD. Firenze: Sansoni, 1891. Pp. 335-80.
Good précis of primary materials. Considers it absurd, however, for BL to be teacher of Dante when busy with state affairs, writing Tresor. But see Novati's response (F).

M.14. Lami, Giovanni. Sanctae ecclesiae florentinae monumenti. Firenze: Annunziata, 1758.

M.15. °Manetti, Giovanni. Vita Dantis. 1439. Firenze, 1847.
Discusses DA's education by BL as being in dialectic, rhetoric, mathematics and poetry.

M.16. °Marchesini, Umberto. 'Due studi biografici su BL'. Atti del Regio Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. 6th ser., 6 (1887), 1595-1616.
This first section biographical; second section, listed in LbIIIB28, is on BL, DA. Pp. 1616-17, gives 1348 'Testament of Biancia Latini', BL's daughter, from Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Testamenti di Or S. Michele, 471, fols 93v-94, mentioning Perso, BL's son. Original lost in 1966 Flood.

M.17. Marchesini, Umberto. BL notaio. Nozze Cipolla Vittone. Verona: Franchini, 1890. °Microfilm
On BL as a notary. Fine discussion with documentation. Gives archival documents from ASF not given by Del Lungo (M).

*M.18. Monaci, Ernesto. Gli italiani in Francia durante il Medio Evo. Roma, 1892.
Cited, Scherillo (E), p. 121.

M.19. Ortolan, Joseph Louis Elzear. Les Pénalités de l'Enfer de Dante suivies d'une étude sur BL apprécié come le maître de Dante. Paris: Plon, 1873.
A lawyer's appreciation of DA and BL. Good on French context. A biographical and general discussion on BL.

M.20. Piton, Camille. Les Lombards en France et à Paris. Paris: Honoré Champion, 1892. 2 vols.

M.21. Shirrmacher, Freidrich Wilhelm. Geschichte Castiliens im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert, ed. Friedrich Wilhelm Lembke. Hamburg: Perthes, 1831. 2nd ed., Gotha, 1881. I, p. 476. Geschichte von Spanien, in series, Geschichte der Europaisher Staaten, 8.
On BL in Spain.

M.22. Scott, Edward J.L. 'BL's Home in France, A.D. 1260-6'. Ath., 3654 (November 1897), p. 635. Also publ. *La Nazione, 2-3 December, 1897.

M.23. °Toynbee, Paget. 'An Alleged Visit of BL to Oxford'. Academy 1232 (14 December 1895), 524.
See N, preface, on hoax letter.

M.24. Toynbee, Paget. 'BL in France'. Ath 3655 (13 November 1897), p. 674.
Like Harting (M), disagrees with Scott (M).

M.25. Toynbee, Paget. 'Brunetto Latino or Brunetto Latini'. Academy (9 February 1890). p. 127.
Sundby decides correct form is 'Latino' and writes it in this manner. Toynbee discusses this. 'Latino' is correct, see Inf. XV.32, but custom requires it be 'Latini'.

M.26. Ventura, Yolanda. 'L'iconografia letteraria di Brunetto Latini', Studi medievali, serie 3/38 (1997), 499-528.

M.27. Ventura, Yolanda. 'Il ritratto di Brunetto Latini nella cultura erudita dal XV al XVIII secolo'. A scuola con Ser Brunetto, ed. Maffia Scariati (Db.3), 287-319.

M.28. °Wieruszowski, Helene. 'BL'. Offprint: Roma: Istituto Enciclpedia italiana fondata da Giovanni Treccani, 1970.
Unpublished article for Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani which stopped at letter 'J'. Detailed, bibliographical references.

See Mansell, National Union Catalogue, under Toynbee, Paget, for further entries on BL at Cornell University.


N. Doubtful Works

G. Villani (F, III.22) lists as BL's: 'la Rettorica di Tullio . . .il buono e utile libro detto Tesoro, e il Tesoretto, e la chiave del Tesoro, e più altri libri in filosofia, e de' vizi e di virtù'. G. Villani seems to suggest the separately circulating Nichomachean Ethics translation from Aristotle, the Treatise on Four Virtues, and the Fiore di filosafi e di molti savi are likewise BL's, or at least publsihed by him.

The two works that came to be ascribed to BL, Il mare amoroso and Il pataffio, are no longer considered to be his. Both of these are in D'Ancona, Bacci, Manuale (E). Tiraboschi (E), IV.442-43, Gaiter (C.44), p. xiv, note first attributions. Riccardian 2908 (Ba.16) contains Il mare amoroso and Il tesoretto. Il pataffio is found with Il tesoretto in Laurenziano Plut. 90 inf. 47 (Ba.11). Scherillo doubted authenticity of La rettorica (E). Maggini first doubted authenticity of letter about Abbot Tesauro, then reversed himself (Testa, Da). It is ascribed to BL in one MS (Bd.21). It has been suggested that the Fiore sonnets are BL's (Muner, Armour), though this is unlikely. The Chronicle (N) is, perhaps, BL's. See also Kf. Il Fiore.

N.1. Ageno, Franca. 'Per l'identificazione dell'autore del Pataffio'. SFI 20 (1962), 75-98.
Notes Padula nonsense (N). Fine bibliography in foonotes, pp. 75-77. Discusses MSS.

N.2. D'Agostino, Alfonso. 'Nuova proposta per le fonti del Fiore e vita dei filosafi ed altri savi ed imperadori'. Medioevo Romanzo 4 (1977), 35-52.

N.3. Del Furia, Francesco. 'Se il Pataffio possa essere di ser BL'. Atti dell'Imperiale e Reale Accademia della Crusca 2 (1829), 246-62.
Good article, which notes that no Dante commentary mentions Pataffio which is a fourteenth-century work. Mezzopreti (E) notes he is Bibliotecario of the Laurenziana and speaks approvingly of his article.

N.4. °Esposito, Mario. 'The Letters of BL: A Nineteenth-Century Literary Hoax'. MLR 12 (1917), 59-63. The same in Italian: 'Una falsificazione letteraria del secolo XIX: Le lettere di BL'. ASI 88 (1930), 101.14. See BbI.22.

N.5. Hartwig, Otto. 'Die sogenannte Chronik des BL'. In Quellen und Forschungen zur ältesten Geschichte der Stadt Florenz. Marburg: Elwert'sche, 1875. Rpt Halle: Niemeyer, 1880. Vol. II, section vii, pp. 209-37.
Gives text of MS, Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale II.IV. Decides it is not BL's as it ends after his dates. However, it is characteristic for a chronicle to be continued by others. See Wieruszowski (F), p. 313, on it as BL's work with Ghibelline continuation. Text discusses Buondelmonte murder, battle between Donati and Cavalcanti, tale of Ugolino, which notes they all died of hunger/cannibalism, pp. 224.25, 236, 239. This material rpbl. in Alfredo Schiaffini, Testi fiorentini del Dugento e dei primi del Trecento, Firenze, Sansoni, 1906, rpt 1926, pp. 82-150, and P. Villari (F). See also Il libro fiesolano I, pp. 37-65. This matrix of materials influences DA's DC.

*N.6. Lanza, Antonio. 'Il "Detto del gatto lupesco"'. Atti e Memoria dell'Accademia Letteraria Italiana Arcadia, s. 3e, 5 (1972), 315-327. Rpbl. Il "Detto del gatto lupesco": alle radici dell'"allegoria fondamentale" della "Divina Commedia"'. Primi secoli. 1991. Pp. 41-59.

N.7. °Il mare amoroso, poemetti in endacasillabi sciolti di BL. A cura di Giusto Grion. Bologna: Fava e Garagnani, 1869. Also in °Prop, antiche serie II, 1 (1868), 147-79, 273, 306, 593-620.
Gives conjectural date as 1240-46 (p. 13). Considers that BL wrote Il mare amoroso when he was still a young man, noting that Dante composed Vita nuova at a similar early stage in his literary career.

N.8. Il mare amoroso. Ed. Emilio Vuolo. Roma: Istituto di Filologia Moderna, Università di Roma, 1962. Also in CN 12 (1952), 103.30; 16 (1956), 147-77; gloss, 17 (1957), 74-174; notes, 18 (1958), 5-52.
Includes reproduction of pages of Riccardian 2908. Discusses previous scholarship. MA not ascribed to BL. Critical edition.

N.9. Monti, Gennaro Maria. 'Per tre rime attribuite a ser BL'. AR 7 (1923), 337-48.
To the Vat. lat. 3793 are added three other lyrics, 'Sed io havessi ardir quand'io ho voglie', 'O fratel nostro che se morto e sepolto', 'Per haver Policleto col penello', in laude by company of Santa Croce, attributed to BL. Gives much information on MSS and incunabula. See, however, Quaglio (Da), p. 394. Further fugitive, doubtful lyrics are in Vat. Reg. lat. 1603, fols. 25v-45, and Casanatense 818.

N.10. Nisard, Charles. 'BL est-il l'auteur du Pataffio, et, s'il ne l'est pas, quel est cet auteur?' Journal des Savants (1880), 54-63, 83-96.
Attributes Pataffio to Domenico di Giovanni.

N.10.Rev. Borgognoni, Adolfo. 'L'autori del Pataffio secondo Carlo Nisard'. Rassegna Settimanale 6 (1880), 216-18.
Borgognoni laughs at foreigners for taking BL authorship seriously. Poem is later than Domenico di Giovanni who died in 1448.

N.11. Padula, Antonio. BL e 'Il pataffio'. Milan: Albrighi, 1921.
An utterly mad book. Il pataffio is a scurrilous terza rima poem. Padula believes it is BL's. But see G. Villani (F146), II, 176 & 181, who gives the coq-à-l'âne verses, similar to Il pataffio in style, by means of which Farinata dissuaded Siena from razing Florence to the ground after the Battle of Montaperti. More work needs to be done in this area.

N.12. Picone, Michelangelo. 'Glosse al 'Detto d'amore'. Medioevo Romanzo 3 (1976).
P. 402, notes connection between Mare Amoroso and Detto d'amore.

N.13. °Potter, Joy M. 'La struttura del Mare amoroso', CN 23 (1963), 191-204.
Reviews scholarship. Discusses text.

N.14. Segre, Cesare. 'Per un'edizione del Mare amoroso'. GSLI 140 (1963), 1-29.
Discussion of editorial problems in preparation for edition in Contini, Poeti del Duecento (C.70).

N.15. Spitzer, Leo. 'A proposito del Mare amoroso'. In Romanische Literaturstudien 1936-1956. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1959. Pp. 508-34. Originally publ. in CN (1956), 179-99, 17 (1957), 175-76.
Believes author to be Richard de Fournival. Nowhere mentions BL ascription. See account of scholarship, pp. 508-11, for further references.

O. Lost Works

See Scherillo (E) on statement that BL translated Boethius into Italian, p.130, n.1. See also Antoine Thomas about Consolation in French translation by an Italian in 'MSS des ducs de Milan (AgIII). Bono Giamboni also is associated with Boethius. Nannucci (C.49), p. 297, supposes Villani meant 'Tesoretto ch'é la chiave de Tesoro'. Of the list given by Giovanni Villani of works written by BL the only ones lost are the 'chiave del Tesoro', unless it be the Tesoretto, and the 'Libri de' vizi e delle virtudi', unless it be Tresor II in its Italian translation.

P. Recommended Works

For an introduction to BL the following texts which use primary material are recommended: Bolton Holloway (C.85, C.96, E ); Chabaille (C.39); Carmody (C.63); Davidsohn (F); Dole (E); Fauriel (E); Jauss (D); Maggini (C.77); Marigo (G); Mattalía (E); Mazzoni (C.75, E); Mazzotta (F); Scherillo (E); Sundby (E); Wieruszowski (C.71); Zannoni (C.19), while Ceva (E); Kay (LbIV); Pézard (LBIV) are less useful. A critical national edition of BL's major Italian writings is much to be desired.

Q. Theses/Dissertations/Projects

*Q.1. Mussafia, Adolfo. 'Sul testo del Tesoro di BL, Studio di Adolfo Mussafia presentato nella tornata della classe, 1868'. Denkschriften Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 18-19 (1868), 265-334. See BgIII.

Q.2. Wiese, Berthold. 'Über die Sprache des 'Tesoretto' BL's'. Inaugural Dissertation ze 14. Feb. 1883, Berlin. See BgI.

*Q.3. Hees, George. 'Der Einfluss von BLs Tesoretto auf Dantes DC'. Dissertation, Hamburg, 1952. See LbIIIB.

Q.4. East, James R. 'Book Three of BL’s Tresor: An English Translation and Assessment of its Contribution to Rhetorical Theory'. PhD Dissertation, Stanford University, 1960. See C.72.

*Q.5. Thomas, Johannes. 'BLs Vebersetzung der drei "Caesarianae": Pro Marcello, Pro Ligario, Pro Rege Deiotaro: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der italienischen Sprache des Duecento'. Dissertation, Cologne, 1967. See H.

Q.6. °Costa, Elio G. 'BL Between Boethius and Dante': The Tesoretto and the Medieval Allegorical Tradition'. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Toronto, 1974. See E.


Q.7. Holloway, Julia Bolton. 'The Figure of the Pilgrim in Medieval Poetry'. PhD Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1974. See  LbIIIB.

*Q.8. Monti Nicali, Clelia. Le illustrazioni per le opere di Brunetto Latini del Maestro del Biadaiolo, Tesi di Perfezionamento in Storia dell'arte medievale e moderna, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Firenze, 1974. See Ia.

Q.9. Richards, Earl Jeffrey. 'Dante’s Commedia and its Vernacular Narrative Context'. PhD Dissertation, Princeton University, 1978.  See H.

Q.10. °Prince, Dawn. 'An Edition and Study of Book One of the Unique Aragonese Translation of BL's Li Livre dou Tresor'. PhD Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1990.
See C.90. Also °Microfiche, KHETH: Text and Concordance of the Aragonese Translation of Brunetto Latini's Li Livres dou Tresor, Gerona Cathedral MS 20-a-5. Ed. Dawn Prince. Madison: Hispanic Seminar of Medieval Studies, 1990.

*Q.11. Torri, Plinio. 'Edizione critica del volgarizzamento di Brunetto Latini della "Doctrina de arte loquendi et tacendi" di Albertano di Brescia. Uno scavo nella tradizione del "Tesoro"'. Tesi, Università degli Studi di Perugia, 1994. See C.93,BgII.

Q.12. °Sayiner, Elisabetta Pellegrin. 'From BL to Dante’s Ser Brunetto'. PhD Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2000.  http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9965561/ See LbIIIB.

Q.13. Marshall, Jennifer. 'The Manuscirpt Tradition of Brunetto Latino's Tresor and its Italian Version'. Thesis for Doctor of Philosophy, Royal Holloway University of London, 2001.

*Q.14. Lucchi, Laura Annalisa. 'Brunetto Latini - "Tresor" - Volgarizzamento di Bono Giamboni - Adattamento salentino'. Tesi, Università degli Studi di Lecce, 2001-02. See Mascheroni (BgIII), Tesoro N, Paris, BN, It 440 (BbII.36).

Q.15. °Minutelli, Sonia. 'La cosmografia figurata nei codici in volgare del ‘Tesoro’ di BL'. Tesi, Università degli Studi di Udine, 2003-2004. CD, KHETH. See G.

*Q.16. Dotto, Diego. 'Il primo e il terzo libro della versione toscana del Tresor di Brunetto Latini secondo il codice Laur. Plut. XLII.23'. Tesi, Università di Padova, 2004.
See BbII.30.

*Q.17. Scariati-Maffia, Irene. I "tesori" di BL e le artes dictaminis nei poeti dei primi secoli e oltre. Continuità e frattura nella ricezione di Brunetto dal Medioevo al Rinascimento. Projekt, University of Basel, 2005-2008. http://www.forschungsdb.unibas.ch/ProjectDetailLong.cfm?project_id=3293

Q.18. Vitiello, Alice Ours. 'Tesoro and Convivio: A Study of the Earliest Italian Vernacular Adaptations of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics 1260-1308'. PhD Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2009.

Q.19. Napolitano, David. 'Composition and Reception of Brunetto Latini's Li Livres dou Tresor: The Price of a Medieval Bestseller'. Thesis, Universitët Utrecht, 2010.

 

R. Material on the World Wide Web

BL Web Portal, http://www.florin.ms/brunettolatino.html:

Brunetto Latino: An Analytic and Interactive Bibliography, http://www.florin.ms/brunettolatinibibl.html

Material in Chronological Order, from Acts of the City and the Book, International Congress, Florence, 4-7 September, 2002

The Battle of Montaperti:

In file: http://www.florin.ms/beth2.html
Diana Modesto, Il Primo Popolo: A Monument on the Bargello

Renato Stopani, Il Libro di Montaperti

Brunetto Latino's Embassy to Alfonso X el Sabio:

In same file: http://www.florin.ms/beth2.html
Angela Franco, Alfonso el Sabio, Las Cantigas de Santa Maria
Deirdre Jackson, The Disordered Quires of the Florentine Cantigas de Santa Maria
Nhora Lucia Serrano, Alfonso el Sabio, The Florentine Cantigas de Santa Maria
Ursula Betka, The Florentine Laudari and Orsanmichele
In appendix file: http://www.florin.ms/beth2a.html
Julia Bolton Holloway, Diplomacy and Literature: Alfonso el Sabio's Influence on BL
Julia Bolton Holloway, Behind the Arras: Pier delle Vigne, Alfonso el Sabio, BL, DA

Brunetto Latino, Il Tesoretto, Manuscript Transcription:

Editorial Introduction, Julia Bolton Holloway
Introduzione in italiano
Brunetto Latino, Il Tesoretto
Brunetto Latino, Il Fagoletto

In file  http://www.florin.ms/beth2a.html on the Tesoretto:
Elisabetta Sayiner, Brunetto in the Tesoretto
Catherine Harding, Visualizing BL's Tesoretto in Early Trecento Florence

Brunetto Latino, La Rettorica, Manuscript Transcription:

Brunetto Latino's Commentary on Cicero, La Rettorica 2 files
Brunetto Latino, La Rettorica nel Tesoro 2 files

Brunetto Latino, Li Livres dou Tresor:

Essays on Li Livres dou Tresor:
Julia Bolton Holloway, Bankers and Their Books: Italian Manuscripts in French Exile
In file http://www.florin.ms/beth4.html
Alison Stones, The Illustrations of the Tresor to c. 1320
Brigitte Roux, L'iconographie du Livre du Tresor: diversité des cycles
[Aucassin and Nicolete using St Petersburg Manuscript Li Livres dou Tresor illuminations]

Brunetto Latino, Il Tesoro:

Essays on Il Tesoro:
Julia Bolton Holloway, Brown Ink, Red Blood: BL and the Sicilian Vespers
Julia Bolton Holloway, Behind the Arras: Pier delle Vigne, Alfonso el Sabio, BL, DA
It is hoped soon to have a digitized form of the editio princeps of Il Tesoro on the web

Brunetto Latino and Dante Alighieri:

Digitizing BL as Key to DA

E-Book:

The 'Sweet New Style': Essays on BL, DA and Geoffrey Chaucer:
Table of Contents
Prologue: The 'Sweet New Style

Brunetto Latino and Dante Alighieri:
I Bankers and Their Books: Italian Manuscripts in French Exile
II Brown Ink, Red Blood: BL and the Sicilian Vespers
III The Vita Nuova's Pilgrimage Paradigms
IV Stealing Hercules' Club: Inferno XXV's Metamorphoses

Geoffrey Chaucer
:
V Black and Red Letter Chaucer
VI Fact and Fiction: Women in Love
VII Convents, Courts and Colleges
VIII The Tomb of the Duchess Alice
Epilogue: Attica State Prison, Boethius the Exile, Dante the Pilgrim

Florentine Libraries and Archives:

The Manuscripts, the Documents
Manuscript images available internally, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana


External Websites:

Lecture at Cornell University on Brunetto Latino: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WATj0sZhp1o

http://www.archeogr.unisi.it/repetti/dbms/sk.php?id=2374

http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/italica/Cronologia/secolo13/Latini/lat_intr.html

http://www.italica.rai.it/principali/dante/schede/latini.htm

http://asv.vatican.va/it/doc/1263.htm

http://ovipc44.ovi.cnr.it/TLIO/bibTLIO.php?tbib=0&rickey=Brunetto+Latini%2C+Rettorica

http://www.classicitaliani.it/duecento/rettorica1.htm

http://ovipc44.ovi.cnr.it/TLIO/bibTLIO.php?tbib=0&rickey=Brunetto+Latini%2C+Tesoretto

http://digilander.libero.it/bepi/biblio3a/Tesoretto.html

http://www.letteraturaitaliana.net/pdf/Volume_1/t21.pdf#search=%22brunetto%20latini%22

http://www.lexilogos.com/latini_tresor.htm

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/LD/numbers/03/holloway.html

http://dmoz.org/World/Italiano/Arte/Letteratura/Autori/L/Latini,_Brunetto/

http://www.sifr.it/convegni/2006/convegno_brunetto_basilea.pdf#search=%22brunetto%20latini%22

http://www.forschungsdb.unibas.ch/ProjectDetailShort.cfm?project_id=3293

http://www.ext.upmc.fr/urfist/menestrel/medencmd.htm

http://gallica.bnf.fr/

http://perso.orange.fr/pecia/

http://blog.pecia.fr/

http://www.arlima.net

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S. Library Holdings
The Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei in the 'English Cemetery' (Piazzale Donatello, 38, 50132 Florence), microfilms and microfiches available for scholars' research, listed in the Catalogue at
http://www.florin.ms/libkheth.html#brunettolatino or KHETH:

E.G. Costa, Brunetto Latini between Boethius and Dante, microfiche
Umberto Marchesini, ‘Brunetto Latini, notaio’
Firenze, Archivio di Stato
Firenze, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Ashburnham 125, Li Livres dou Tresor
Firenze, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Ashburnham 1234, Francesco Da Barberino
Firenze, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Plut. 40.16, Francesco Da Barberino, Commedia
Firenze, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Plut. 42.19, Tesoro
Firenze, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Plut. 42.20, Tesoro
Firenze, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Plut. 42.23, Tesoro
Firenze, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Plut. 61.13, Lapo Castiglionchio
Firenze, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Plut. 76.74, Tesoro, Letters
Firenze, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Gadd. 26
Firenze, Biblioteca Riccardiana 1538, Tesoro
Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale I.IV.127
Rettorica
Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale II.VIII.36, Tesoro, Sommetta
Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale, Magl. VIII.1375, Tesoro, Sicilian Vespers
Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale, Conv. Soppr. F.4.776
Siena, Oratione
Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica, Vat 2418, Taddeo D’Alderotto, Ethica
Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica, Vat. 3203, Li Livres dou Tresor, Italian script, French illuminations
Città del Vaticano. Biblioteca Apostolica, Barb. Lat. 4076
Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica, Chig.L.IV.210, Tesoro
Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica, Chig.L.VII.249, Rettorica
Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica, Chig.L.267, Sallust, Epistolarium
Vatican Secret Archives, Documents
Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare, DVIII, Li Livres dou Tresor
Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare DXIX, Orazione Toscane
Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare, CCCXCI, Orazione Toscane
Milano, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, G.75.sup, Tesoro
Udine, Li Livres dou Tresor, Italian script
Palermo, Michele Amari, Vespri Siciliani e mss
Madrid, 10124, Ethica, Italian script
Escorial L.II.3, Li Livres dou Tresor, Italian script
Barcelona, Llibre de Croniques
Karlsruhe, Li Livres dou Tresor, Italian script
Krakóv, Jagellonian, Tesoretto
New York, Pierpont Morgan, 814, Li Livres dou Tresor, Italian script, French illuminations
Yale, Marston 28, Ethica
Yale, Marston 247, Epistolarium
Columbia University, Plimpton, 281, Li Livres dou Tresor


See also the Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei holdings at:
http://www.florin.ms/libgimel.html#brunettolatino, or GIMEL, general;
http://www.florin.ms/libvau.html#jbh, or VAU, JBH publications, searching for 'brunetto';
http://www.florin.ms/libzayin.html#brunettolatino, or ZAYIN, paleography and codicology, which includes the Moleiro manuscript facsimile of the St Petersburg
Li Livres du Tresor and its commentary volume;

http://www.florin.ms/libtet.html#brunettolatino, or TET, offprints and articles holdings.


Publications:

Brunetto Latini. Li Livres dou Tresor: St Petersburg, Russian National Library, Fr.F.v.III n° 4.  Barcelona: Moleiro, 2000. Facsimile edition. mmoleiro@moleiro.com
 


 

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Julia Bolton Bolton Holloway, Twice-Told Tales: Brunetto Latino and Dante Alighieri. New York: Peter Lang , 1993. xiv + 552 pp., plates, maps. ISBN 0-8204-1954-0. Reviewed, Gloria Allaire, Annali d'italianistica. Available for 25 euro/dollars, from Julia Bolton Bolton Holloway To order use PayPal

and send e-mail or write to
Julia Bolton Bolton Holloway, Director
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Brunetto Latini: An Analytic Bibliography. London: Grant and Cutler, 1986. Research Bibliographies and Checklists. Ed. Alan Deyermond. 153 pp. Reviewed: Italian Studies; Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie; Les Lettres Romanes; Romanische Forschungen. ISBN 0-7293-0216-4 or 84-599-1681-2.
Available for 15 euro/dollars from Julia Bolton Bolton Holloway



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