Re: Francesco Filelfo: the "Odes" (early 1450s)

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In Laura Paola Gnaccolini's Il segreto dei segreti. I tarocchi Sola Busca e la cultura ermetico-alchemica tra Marche e Veneto alla fine del Quattrocento (Milan 2013, (p. 17), in the course of describing "illustrious men" programs like that of the Sola-Busca, she mentions Filelfo's work on that theme for Francesco Sforza:
In Lombardia bisogna ricordare il caso di Milano, con l'incarico da parte di Francesco Sforza a Bonifacio Bembo e altri artisti di affrescare uomini d'arme e donne famose nel cortile del palazzo dell'Arengo, sede della famiglia ducale, sulla base di un complesso programma iconografico stilato da Francesco Filelfo (21)...

(In Lombardy the case of Milan needs to be remembered, with the assignment by Francesco Sforza to Bonifacio Bembo and other artists to paint armed men and famous women in the dell'Arengo courtyard of the palace, the seat of the ducal family , on the basis of a complex iconographic program drawn up by Francesco Filelfo (21)...)
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21. Zaist 1774 [G.B. Zaist, Notìzie istoriche de Pittori, Scultori ed Architetti cremonesi, Cremona, p. 52; Bandera 1987 [S. Bandera, documenti per i Bembo: una bottega di pittori, una città ducale del quattrocento e gli Sforza, in "Arte lombarda", 80-82, pp. 155-182], pp. 162, 171 n. 50; Caglioti 1994 [F. Caglioti, Francesco Sforza e il Filelfo, Bonifacio Bembo e "compagni" in "Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz", 38, 2-3, 1994, pp. 183-217], pp. 183-217.
Perhaps these references have more to say, I don't know.

Re: Francesco Filelfo: the "Odes" (early 1450s)

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mikeh wrote: Filelfo also projected his Florentine Discussions on Exile Dedicated to Vitaliano Borromeo (Ad Vitalianum Borrhomaeum Commentionum Florentinarum de Exilio) to be ten books. This is a book started in about 1440 and abandoned after three books in around 1450. The English translation's editor Jeroen de Keyser writes (Francesco Filelfo, On Exile, W. Scott Blanchard, trans., 2013, p. x):
The work as a whole is organized topically according to the titles of the three books--"On the Disadvantages of Exile," "On Infamy," and "On Poverty" - and we know from the marginal annotations in one manuscript that Filelfo intended the work to grow to ten books.
Also:
But Filelfo clearly wrote the dialogue after 1440, when all hope of a rapprochement between the party in exile and Cosimo's regime had failed.
Somehow a book with a wrong title ???? ...
... contains texts of Filelfo, prepared by Jeroen de Keyser
https://books.google.de/books?id=A__nCQ ... &q&f=false
Huck
http://trionfi.com

Re: Francesco Filelfo: the "Odes" (early 1450s)

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Huck wrote:
mikeh wrote: Filelfo also projected his Florentine Discussions on Exile Dedicated to Vitaliano Borromeo (Ad Vitalianum Borrhomaeum Commentionum Florentinarum de Exilio) to be ten books. This is a book started in about 1440 and abandoned after three books in around 1450. The English translation's editor Jeroen de Keyser writes (Francesco Filelfo, On Exile, W. Scott Blanchard, trans., 2013, p. x):
The work as a whole is organized topically according to the titles of the three books--"On the Disadvantages of Exile," "On Infamy," and "On Poverty" - and we know from the marginal annotations in one manuscript that Filelfo intended the work to grow to ten books.
Also:
But Filelfo clearly wrote the dialogue after 1440, when all hope of a rapprochement between the party in exile and Cosimo's regime had failed.
Somehow a book with a wrong title ???? ...
... contains texts of Filelfo, prepared by Jeroen de Keyser
https://books.google.de/books?id=A__nCQ ... &q&f=false
On Exile, which the translator does date to c. 1440 (which means Filelfo was writing furiously that year, but he did hate Cosimo that much [the work mainly lampoons Cosimo] and deeply felt the loss of Albizzi and the Milanese at Anghiari, also because it meant his former patron Pala Strozzi was permanently banished). The other work is Filelfo's epic about the 1452-54 wars that ended in the Peace of Lodi, Sphortias (sometimes shown as Sforziad, and coupled here with a few other orations from the 1460s), mainly written in the 1450s and never close to completed (this is the work where Fama appears to Sforza to tell him the Venetians are mobilizing, Sforza himself appears as a god to Bianca to tell her to defend Cremona against Venice, etc. Its all overwrought with too many Virgilian/Homeric allusions).

De Keyser's page on academia.edu (unfortunately many of his downloads are just title/content pages as they are books - not articles): http://kuleuven.academia.edu/JeroenDeKeyser
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