Emilio Giazzi

The Essay develops the theme of barbaries in the Historia Romana of Velleius Paterculus from the point of view of gestuality, rhetorically considered as a typical aspect of characters or moments which assume a paradigmatic meaning...

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...

Members of the Meli family, a prominent one in the 15th century Cremona, were jurisconsults, notaries and students in artes. Giovanni Meli, iuris utriusque doctor, made his will in 1479, bequeathing his library to his nephew Giovanni Francesco. An inventory of the books (38 or 39 volumes) is included in the will: these are texts of Roman law and canon law with standard commentaries, a few are described as ‘printed’. The book description gives incipit, explicit and estimated value, ranging from 1 1/2 to 35 gold florins.

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.

A fragment of a MS, containing Cicero’s Pro Milone, has been reused as cover for the records of the notary and scholar Francesco Bresciani (1629-1700), active in Cremona. It has been discovered in the Archivio di Stato of Cremona, Notarile, filza 5556; palaeographical features point to the middle of the XVth Century and to Northern Italy as place of origin.

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).