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Musicians on Parnassus

1965; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 12; Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/2857072

2326-0823

Hugo Slim,

Renaissance Literature and Culture

Philippo Oriolo da Bassano's poem, Monte Parnaso, is an imitation of Dante which, however, in no way reflects the glories of the great Florentine's verse. It has rightly been accorded little attention beyond a few nods in its direction by literary historians. The excerpts from die poem published in 1899 have slumbered on library shelves within the pages of the Giornale Dantesco. The complete poem is preserved in a late sixteenth-century manuscript in the Biblioteca Estense at Modena. On the concluding folio a note records that the poem was read through in 1586 by one Zuanne Cozza, a notary (who perhaps copied it), it having come by chance into the hands of a worthy notary and citizen of Treviso, one Iseppo Cozza, whose monogram appears at the top of the same folio. No other copies are known.