Germini / Minchiate ... Francesco Bracciolini

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"The funny "Il Malmantile racquistato di Perlone Zipoli" followed a work, which is called a serious heroic poem:
La croce racquistata: poema heroico
Francesco Bracciolini .... .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Bracciolini
presso Bernardo Giunti, Gio. Battista Ciotti & Compagni, 1614 - 720 pages (first edition of 1611).
https://books.google.de/books?id=tGgXw4 ... &q&f=false
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Bracciolini .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Bracciolini

This serious heroic poem was followed by a funny work by the same author "Bracciolini, Francesco (1618). Dello scherno degli Dei."
I have to think about this .......
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Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini (1380-59). who worked for Popes, found during the council of Constance the work of Manilius, which used 12 Greek-Roman Olympian gods as rulers of zodiac signs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poggio_Bracciolini
Poggio travelled with the new pope Martin to Milan, where Filippo Maria Visconti just had accused and killed his former wife Beatrice de Tenda, widow of Ficino Cane.
Poggio went then for 5 years to England. Filippo Maria Visconti ordered the production of a card playing deck, in which 12 Olympic gods + 4 other gods were used as trumps (Michelino deck).
Poggio wrote in 1440 a text De infelicitate principum (On the Unhappiness of Princes, 1440). Curiously this is the year, when we hear of the first Trionfi deck (by Giusto Giusti).
Davide Canfora published 1998 "Poggio Bracciolini, De infelicitate principum" on 79 pages.
https://books.google.de/books?id=Aaikul ... navlinks_s
Curiously the author Canfora gives a lot of references to work the "Momo" of Gian Battista Alberti, which in 1440 didn't exist, but started to be written and was finished c1446-48).
( the relation between Poggio and Alberti is also discussed here: )
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... _Revisited
In 1611 a Francesco Bracciolini, who worked also for a pope, published a serious heroic poem "La croce racquistata: poema heroico"
The title remembered me on the title Il Malmantile racquistato ... this gave me suspicions ...
I found: Bracciolini, Francesco (1618). "Dello scherno degli Dei." First I discovered a "Dello schemo degli Dei", but this was a typo, as I later discovered.
"Dello schemo degli Dei" would have meant "Of the scheme of the Gods " and this would have interested me.
But it was "Dello scherno degli Dei" and this interested me also and it means "Of the mockery of the Gods". And it was described a funny book, not a serious heroic epos. It immediately remembered me on the "Momo" of Alberti and Momos, the god of mockery.
The name Bracciolini I didn't remember. I knew Poggio with the name Poggio, of course.

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https://books.google.de/books/about/Lo_ ... edir_esc=y
Hoppla, the edition of 1618 is called "Lo scherno de' falsi dei" (Of the mockery of false gods). In 1625 it looks like this ...
https://books.google.de/books?id=THpXAA ... navlinks_s

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Bracciolini was born of a noble family in Pistoia in 1566. On his removing to Florence he was admitted into the academy there, and devoted himself to literature. At Rome he entered the service of Cardinal Maffeo Barberini, with whom he afterwards went to France. After the death of Clement VIII [in 1605] he returned to his own country; and when his patron Barberini was elected pope, under the name of Urban VIII [in 1623], Bracciolini repaired to Rome and was made secretary to the pope's brother, Cardinal Antonio Marcello Barberini.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Bracciolini
see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Clement_VIII

When Lorenzo Lippi started the Malmantile in Innsbruck, it had the name "Novella delle due regine" (Andrea Vitali had this information). This was before 31. August 1646, when Francesco Bracciolini died.

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That's a German reaction on the two major works of Francesco Bracciolini. It's short and very negative. According this comment there is not much value in these works.
Geschichte der Poesie und Beredsamkeit seit dem Ende des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts, Teil 2
Bouterwek
J.F. Röwer, 1802
https://books.google.de/books?id=2CMUAA ... ni&f=false

Old versions had 14 chapters ... but there are variants.
This version from 1804 has 20 chapters ...
https://books.google.de/books?id=wZ8TAA ... navlinks_s
This version of 1842 has also 20 chapters and it has some additional material at page 205.
https://books.google.de/books?id=NyG7V_ ... navlinks_s

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In the Minchiate Francesi by Poilly in France the figure of Momus appears around c1660. Momus was topic for Alberti c1448 and also for Francesco Bracciolini in 1618 in the chapters 13+14.
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Germini / Minchiate ... Lorenzo Lippi, Malatesta, Bracciolini and the pope

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IN WORK

Treccani ... automatic translation of life of Lorenzo Lippi
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In Innsbruck, where he stayed from October 1643 to April 1644, he mainly painted portraits, such as Claudia de 'Medici in widow's dress , Claudia as s. Cristina , Maria Leopoldina , Isabella Clara and Sigismondo Franz , from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and the most famous, classicist, Samaritana al pozzo from 1644, also in the Vienna museum. In the contract stipulated with Claudia de 'Medici (Weiss, pp. 173 ff.) A total of 57 works performed for the court with the adjutant Lorenzo Martelli are mentioned.
As Andrea Vitali has it ... The Malmantile start took place in Innsbruck and the title was: Novella delle due regine and the protagonists were two fighting queens "due cugine Celidora e Martinazza per il trono di Malmantile, un piccolo borgo fra Pisa e Firenze" ("two cousins Celidora and Martinazza for the throne of Malmantile, a small village between Pisa and Florence." ) Malmantile really exists and Lippi was there occasionally. This might be a rest of it ...
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.7478793 ... 384!8i8192
Somehow one should know, that Claudia of Medici was a regent of a large territory and competent enough to lead an army. And there was a 30-years-war and she had opportunities to show her qualities.
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Lorenzo Lippi was in Innsbruck and his friend Antonia Malatesta published meanwhile as Astianatte Molino the small work LeMinchiate at 8th of February 1644.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Urban_VIII
Later life
A consequence of these military and artistic endeavours was a massive increase in papal debt. Urban VIII inherited a debt of 16 million scudi, and by 1635 had increased it to 28 million.
According to contemporary John Bargrave, in 1636 members of the Spanish faction of the College of Cardinals were so horrified by the conduct of Pope Urban VIII that they conspired to have him arrested and imprisoned (or killed) so that they could replace him with a new pope; namely Laudivio Zacchia. When Urban VIII travelled to Castel Gandolfo to rest, the members of the Spanish faction met in secret and discussed ways to advance their plan. But they were discovered and the pope raced back to Rome where he immediately held a consistory and demanded to know who the new pope was. To put an end to the conspiracy, the pope decreed that all Cardinal-Bishops should leave Rome and return to their own churches.
With the Spanish plan having failed, by 1640 the debt had reached 35 million scudi, consuming more than 80% of annual papal income in interest repayments.

Death and legacy
Urban VIII's death on 29 July 1644 is said to have been hastened by chagrin at the result of the Wars of Castro. Because of the costs incurred by the city of Rome to finance this war, Urban VIII became immensely unpopular with his subjects.
On his death, the bust of Urban VIII that lay beside the Palace of the Conservators on the Capitoline Hill was rapidly destroyed by an enraged crowd, and only a quick-thinking priest saved the sculpture of the late pope belonging to the Jesuits from a similar fate.

Following his death, international and domestic machinations resulted in the papal conclave not electing Cardinal Giulio Cesare Sacchetti, who was closely associated with some members of the Barberini family. Instead, it elected Cardinal Giovanni Battista Pamphili, who took the name of Innocent X, as his successor at the papal conclave of 1644.
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The Barberini pope acted with conspicuity in the Thirty Years' War , which fell during his pontificate . Unlike his predecessor Pope Gregory XV. he no longer granted Emperor Ferdinand II any money, although he not only carried out the Counter-Reformation in the Habsburg hereditary lands with all vigor , but also returned the church property lost as a result of Protestant secularization, including many prince-bishoprics and monasteries, to the Catholic Church through the edict of restitution . Urban's sympathies were with France because he wanted the Papal States to be embraced by theHabsburgs feared that they would rule the south of the Italian peninsula (kingdoms of Naples and Sicily) and large parts of Central and Eastern Europe beyond the Alps, as well as Spain and the Spanish Netherlands, and that he did not want to see them gaining a foothold in northern Italy. In the Mantuan War of Succession he therefore supported the French candidate against the Spanish-Habsburg.
But as the "Father of Christians", as he saw himself, he otherwise tried to behave as neutrally as possible in the European conflicts . But he took no effective action against the power politics of the French cardinal and First Minister Richelieu . Only the alliance of France with the leading Protestant power Sweden in 1631 he openly tried to prevent.
When the troops of the Catholic League with 26,800 soldiers under the generals Pappenheim and Tilly stormed the city of Magdeburg on May 20, 1631 , all inhabitants, without exception of sex, were outlawedexplained. Days of robbery, rape and murder ensued, killing more than 20,000 citizens. This massacre horrified the whole of Europe and is considered the largest and worst of the Thirty Years' War. It was said that the horrors of the deeds and the horror "cannot be put into words and cannot be wept with tears". Pope Urban VIII, on the other hand, wrote a letter on June 24, 1631 in which he expressed his joy at the "destruction of the nest of heretics".
His extravagance increased the Papal States' deficit from 16 million scudi at the time of his inauguration to 35 million in 1640. Therefore, in 1636 members of the Spanish faction of the College of Cardinals plotted his removal, possibly assassination, in order to elect Laudivio Zacchia as his successor. [4] When Urban left for Castel Gandolfo, conspiratorial meetings took place in Rome. After these had been betrayed to him, however, he returned immediately, called a consistory and demanded explanations; he then expelled all cardinals from Rome.
Death
The Roman people, who had to suffer under the voluptuous extravagances of Urban VIII, are said to have erupted in rapturous jubilation when the news of his death on July 29, 1644. He was buried in a magnificent tomb in St. Peter immediately to the right of the Cathedra Petri , which is one of Bernini's masterpieces. His successor , Innocent X , held Urban VIII's nephews accountable, but they fled to France to Cardinal Mazarin , on whose influence the process was crushed in 1646.
Lorenzo Lippi
https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/lo ... rafico%29/

Salvator Rosa
The Life and Times of Salvator Rosa: New Edition
Sydney Morgan
D.Bryce, 1855 - 304 pages
https://books.google.de/books?id=0sEBT3 ... navlinks_s
Malatesti is only once mentioned.
Lorenzo Lippi variously. Also Minucci.

Salvatore Rosa at treccani (Rosa was in Florence 1440-49)
https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/salvatore-rosa/
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Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvator_Rosa
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Alexandra Hoare: "Freedom in Friendship: Salvator Rosa and the Accademia dei Percossi" in "Salvator Rosa e il suo tempo 1615 - 1673", Rome 2010
Hoare points to a work of Salvator Rosa made for Carlo Gerini in c1642-44 "Diogenes Throwing away his Drinking Cup". . Carlo Gerini was mentioned
in LeMinchiate (February 1644), the text of Antonio Malatesti.

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Diogenes Throwing away his Drinking Cup
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_Gerini
"However, in 1650, the Gerini family, under the newly minted Marchese Carlo Gerini, secretary of the cardinal Carlo de' Medici purchased the palace and refurbished the interiors, commissioning frescoes from Anton Domenico Gabbiani and Jacopo Chiavistelli"
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Un altro pittore e poeta, Lorenzo Lippi , condivideva con Rosa l'ospitalità cardinalizia e frequentava la stessa cerchia di amici. Lippi lo incoraggiò a continuare la poesia Il Malmantile racquistato .
https://it.frwiki.wiki/wiki/Salvator_Rosa

Paolo Minucci
https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/pa ... rafico%29/
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Malatesti 1637 ... lecture on triumphus amoris
https://petrarch.mml.ox.ac.uk/manuscrip ... -nazionale
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Giancarlo de Medici, became cardinal at 14 November 1644 by the new pope
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giancarlo_de%27_Medici
... sponsored especially Salvator Rosa
Huck
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