The Library of the Badia Fiesolana: Intellectual History and Education under the Medici (1462--1464) (2013)
Dressen, Angela (Author)
SISMEL
Physical Details: x + 175 pp.; ill.
Language: English
The Augustinian Badia was an institution fortunate in its friends, for its library provision was bankrolled by Cosimo de' Medici. Dr. Dressen is equally fortunate, since most of the manuscripts survive: she estimates a loss of 10 to 15 percent and even that, as we shall see, may be an exaggeration. The majority live down the hill from the Badia (now the European University Institute) in the Laurenziana. Those codices include the inventory, itself an impressive humanist product (MS Fies. 227). It is the chosen focus of Dressen's work, with her edition prefaced by a set of chapters. One discusses the founding of the bibliotheca, placing it in the context of mid-Quattrocento Florentine book production. Another is a “prolegomenon to a history of Florentine education,” considering the role of teaching at the Badia, and the place of its library in that. The edition of the catalogue appears as an appendix, accompanied by two others. The first is a manifesto for future work, briefly introducing a sample of the Fiesolani manuscripts in order to suggest the use of a new catalogue to replace that produced in 1792 by the inestimable Angelo Maria Bandini. The short paragraphs are said to provide “new descriptions [that] adhere to today's bibliographic standards” (105), but exclude mention of measurements, quire structure, or ruling, let alone the identity of the scribe. So, it is said that MS Fies. 166 is written in “the clear, round handwriting of a scribe who had made many copies for the Badia” (111); it is not mentioned that the littera antiqua with its distinctive angled serifs has been identified as that of Piero Strozzi. The other appendix presents the well-known bibliographical canon of Tommaso Parentucelli; its inclusion is justified by the comparison Dressen makes between it and the conscious construction of the Badia's collection. She explains that her “transcription … is mainly relying on Sforza [published 1884]” (147), though, she warns elsewhere, “this contains some errors” (31).
...MoreReview Rundle, David (2015) Review of "The Library of the Badia Fiesolana: Intellectual History and Education under the Medici (1462--1464)". Renaissance Quarterly (pp. 936-938).
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