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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2019
The primary object of this article is to give the text of six poems by Lodrisio Crivelli (Leodrisius Cribellus), only one of which, no. I, appears to have been printed before and that from a defective manuscript. Secondary objects are to determine what light the texts of the six poems throw on the life of Crivelli from January 1457 to February 1464 and to bring out, principally in notes, any evidence which may tend to add detail to our knowledge of the period.
Of these six poems only the first appears in the list of Crivelli's writings given by Dr. Giulio C. Zimolo in the account of Crivelli's life and works with which he prefaces his edition of one of them, De expeditione Pii papae II adversus Turcos.
1 Bologna, [1950,] Rerum Italicarum Scriptores XXIII, pt. 5. The standard biographical study of Crivelli is F. Gabotto, ‘Ricerche intorno alio storiografo quattrocentista Lodrisio Crivelli’, Archivio Storico Italiano, ser. V, VII (1891), 266-298, to which Dr. Zimolo acknowledges his indebtedness and beyond the limits of which he rarely professes to go.
2 The poem beginning ‘Otia nunc’ which Zimolo printed from codex Vat. Urb. Lat. 403 in his appendix no. I as a ‘poem by Lodrisio Crivelli’ is clearly shown to be by Francesco Patrizi in a number of manuscripts, including one of Patrizi's collected poems. I hope in the near future to publish a text of this poem.
3 Zimolo, p. xxi.
4 July (sc. 1462) was almost over and he had not yet reached Abbadia on the way to Pienza (The Commentaries of Pius II, tr. F. A. Gragg, ed. L. G. Gabel, Smith Coll. Stud, in History XXII, XXV, XXX, XXXV, XLIII, 1937-1957, pp. 571, 574, 597). A shortened version has been published as Memoirs of a Renaissance Pope (New York, 1959). J. Cugnoni, ‘Aeneae Silvii Piccolomini Senensis qui postea fuit Pius n Pont. Max. Opera inedita . ..’, Atti della R. Accademia deiLincei, Anno CCLXXX (1882-1883), Serie Terza, Memorie della Classe di Scienza Morali, Storiche e Filologiche VIII (1883), 364.
5 Zimolo, pp. xiv-xv, with an account of the contents of cartella 123, Archivio di Stato, Milan, and of Ottone del Carretto's vagaries in dating.
6 Enea Silvio Piccolomini (Bari, 1950, Biblioteca di Cultura Moderna no. 481), pp. 204, 233. 246.
7 Pius II (London, 1913), p. 277.
8 Cod. Ottobon. Lat. 823, fol. 158-159.
9 Zimolo, p. xxiii (no. 26).
10 Zimolo, p. xvi, stating that Gabotto had published the letter (pp. 25-26). This letter is not in the Archivio Sforzesco of the Bibliothèque Nationale.
11 Del Carretto's vagaries in dating reduce the clarity of the record; see the notes to Zimolo, p. xv.
12 Commentaries, p. 14.
13 Zimolo, p. xvi, with note 3 citing Cod. Ambros. O. 57 sup. and Ciampini, J., De abbreviatorum … antiquo statu (Rome, 1691)Google Scholar.
14 According to Ciampini, Crivelli went to Rome after he was exiled and was admitted to the college in 1464. Tiraboschi tells us this, though he had not seen the work, but adds that Ciampini was wrong about the date, perhaps that of leaving Milan.
15 Pastor, History of the Popes (St. Louis, 1902), IV, 38-39.
16 Zimolo, p. xvii.
17 Nisard, C., Les Gladiateurs de la république des lettres (Paris, 1860), 1, 81 Google Scholar.
18 Zimolo, p. xix.
19 1 am indebted to Professor P. O. Kristeller for my acquaintance with most of the manuscripts I have used for this paper and for suggestions concerning the translation of the Argonauticon. I wish also to thank Professor James Hutton for valuable suggestions
