On Famous Women

TO THE READERS

Argelati Filippo Argelati (1685–1755) was an influential Italian bibliographer and editor who cataloged many early Italian texts. and Villa, there is one in the famous Archive of Monte Cassino The library of the Benedictine abbey of Monte Cassino is one of the oldest and most significant manuscript repositories in the world. which has been unknown until now. It is more valuable than those in Turin due to the addition of the Protest A "Protesto" in this context refers to a formal legal declaration or grievance. made by order of the Lords of Florence to the Rectors and other offices that administer justice. This was written by Francesco di Pagholo Vettori on September 15, 1455. It also includes two letters, one of which is addressed from the Great Turk A common title for the Ottoman Sultan; in 1455, this would have been Mehmed II, the conqueror of Constantinople. to Pope Nicholas V, and the other from the Pope to the Sultan. The first was translated from the Arabic language into Greek, from Greek into Latin, and from Latin into the vernacular The "volgare," or the everyday Italian language of the period..

On the other hand, the Turin Codex is enriched by the Epistle of the magnificent lord Astorre de' Manfredi Astorre II Manfredi (1412–1468) was the Lord of Faenza. He was imprisoned in Florence for a period following political conflicts., sent from the Florentine prisons to a splendid lady whom he loved most highly.

This letter is not found in the Cassinese Codex, and therefore I wish to report the beginning of it here, which I discovered in the work of Pasini Giuseppe Pasini (1687–1770) was a priest and scholar who published an important catalog of the manuscripts in the Royal Library of Turin in 1749..

◾ This symbol indicates the start of the quoted letter. Most noble and virtuous lady, in whose supreme virtue and beauty I have placed all my hope, and in whom also resides, carved as if in a temple, the dwelling place of all my amorous desires. It is a common opinion that the blows of adverse fortune have the power, with their troubles,