Begins with "Il Carnovale," incipit: Ecco gionto il carnovale/La staggione dei bordelli ... Many poems are dedicated to specific persons, e.g., to Domencio Peretti (f. 49r, 50v); Marco Bembo (f. 61v, 67v, 73r); Francesco Fraccassetti (who had sent tobacco from England to the unnamed poet, f. 79r); Leonardo and Lucrezia Mozenigo (f. 82r, 116r), and Giorgio Alleprandi (f. 86r).
Purchased, 1973.; Faint stamp (" ... Brescia ... ") on f. 3r and 4r; ownership entries on f. 1r (dated 1744) and f. 160v made unreadable. Poem damning "Qui rapict librum" on f. 1r.
161 leaves : paper; 195 x 137 (177 x 70) mm bound to 203 x 145 mm
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Notes:
Binding: Contemporary parchment.; Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).; Inscription on f. 3r: Autore de queste poesie pare certo Pottido. Pare dalla poesia ad una monaca in St. Lorenzo che mandogli una pignatta di risi in dono (f. 75-77).; Foliation: Paper, 161; [1-161]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.; Origin: Written in Venice, before 1744.; Italian.
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