Emilio Giazzi

Giuliano de Anzolis, who lived in Cremona in the XVth Century, is well known as the owner of manuscript Firenze, Bibl. Naz. Centrale, Pal. 556. New documents found in the State Archive of Cremona prove that he was a cloth merchant. An inventory of his books, written on 28th April 1478, includes some books in French and Italian...

The Crotti of Cremona, an old merchant family, counted notaries and officiales of the Duchy of Milan among its members. On 9th August 1486, when the eldest brother came of age, all three Pietro Crotti’s sons received their late father’s property from their aunt Violante Fondulo. The notarial document of receipt includes an inventory of the household goods and four crates of books. The books are individually listed and are Latin grammars and school texts, Latin classical poets and historical works, modern exempla epistularum, humanistic tracts, Dante and Petrarch. Most of them are parchment manuscripts.

Sono qui censiti sei testi classici, tutti di provenienza norditaliana, rinvenuti tra i fragmenta codicum di diversi Archivi cremonesi in cui sono perlopiù impiegati come coperte di atti notarili o di registri vari: un Livio (sec. XV med.) ed un Terenzio (sec. XV in.) in Archivio di Stato; un Lucano (sec. XIV2), un Seneca Oedipus (sec. XIV2) ed un Virgilio Eneide (sec. XIV ex.-XV in.) in Archivio Storico Diocesano; un altro Virgilio Eneide (sec. XIV ex.-XV in.) nell’Archivio della Parrocchia di S. Maria Assunta in Piadena (CR).