BRUNETTO LATINO

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Laurentian Library manuscript images available internally, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

For Dante Alighieri Website Portal

Video of Lecture at Cornell University, 10 March 2008:
Brunetto Latino, Maestro di Dante Alighieri: http://www.cornell.edu/video/details.cfm?vidID=213&display=player

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Brunetto Latino: An Analytic and Interactive Bibliography

Material in Chronological Order:

The Battle of Montaperti:

Brunetto Latino's Embassy to Alfonso X el Sabio:

Brunetto Latino, Il Tesoretto, Manuscript Transcription:

For website on Terence and its illuminated manuscripts, similar to Brunetto Latino's Tesoretto, Dante Alighieri's Commedia, including gestures of speakers, see http://www.umilta.net/terence.html

Brunetto Latino, La Rettorica, Manuscript Transcription:

Brunetto Latino, Li Livres dou Tresor:

Brunetto Latino, Il Tesoro:

          Bestiary, Books IV and V. Transcription of Luigi Carrer, Venice, 1839, edition
        Rettorica, Book VIII. Transcription of MS Biblioteca Nazionale Firenze, II.VIII.36
        It is hoped soon to have a digitized form of the editio princeps of Il Tesoro on the web

Brunetto Latino and Dante Alighieri:

E-Book:

Table of Contents

Prologue: The 'Sweet New Style'

Brunetto Latino and Dante Alighieri
I Bankers and Their Books: Italian Manuscripts in French Exile
II Brown Ink, Red Blood: Brunetto Latino and the Sicilian Vespers
III The Vita Nuova's Pilgrimage Paradigms
IV Stealing Hercules' Club: Inferno XXV's Metamorphoses
 

Geoffrey Chaucer
V Black and Red Letter Chaucer
VI Fact and Fiction: Women in Love
VII Convents, Courts and Colleges
VIII The Tomb of the Duchess Alice

Florentine Libraries and Archives:
The Manuscripts, the Documents

Vatican Secret Archive, Document following Montaperti exile

Manuscript images available internally, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

 
External Websites:

Godbarge, Clément. 'Brunetto Latini y la reconstruccion del ethos republicano. Foro Interno 5 (2005), 85-111. Discusses BL's formation of Florentine civiltà through his translations of Aristotle and Cicero. Available as pdf file:
http://www.ucm.es/BUCM/revistas/cps/15784576/articulos/FOIN0505110085A.PDF

http://www.archeogr.unisi.it/repetti/dbms/sk.php?id=2374

http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/italica/Cronologia/secolo13/Latini/lat_intr.html

http://www.italica.rai.it/principali/dante/schede/latini.htm

http://asv.vatican.va/it/doc/1263.htm

http://ovipc44.ovi.cnr.it/TLIO/bibTLIO.php?tbib=0&rickey=Brunetto+Latini%2C+Rettorica

http://www.classicitaliani.it/duecento/rettorica1.htm

http://ovipc44.ovi.cnr.it/TLIO/bibTLIO.php?tbib=0&rickey=Brunetto+Latini%2C+Tesoretto

http://digilander.libero.it/bepi/biblio3a/Tesoretto.html

http://www.letteraturaitaliana.net/pdf/Volume_1/t21.pdf#search=%22brunetto%20latini%22

http://www.lexilogos.com/latini_tresor.htm

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/LD/numbers/03/holloway.html

http://dmoz.org/World/Italiano/Arte/Letteratura/Autori/L/Latini,_Brunetto/

http://www.sifr.it/convegni/2006/convegno_brunetto_basilea.pdf#search=%22brunetto%20latini%22

http://www.forschungsdb.unibas.ch/ProjectDetailShort.cfm?project_id=3293

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The Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei in the 'English Cemetery', Florence, has the following microfilms and microfiches available for scholars' research:

E.G. Costa, Brunetto Latini between Boethius and Dante, microfiches
Umberto Marchesini, ‘Brunetto Latini, notaio’
Florence, Archivio di Stato
Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Ashburnham 125, Li Livres dou Tresor
Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Ashburnham 1234, Francesco Da Barberino
Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Plut. 40.16, Francesco Da Barberino, Commedia
Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Plut. 42.19, Tesoro
Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Plut. 42.20, Tesoro
Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Plut. 42.23, Tesoro
Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Plut. 61.13, Lapo Castiglionchio
Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Plut. 76.74, Tesoro, Letters
Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Gadd. 26
Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana 1538, Tesoro
Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale I.IV.127
Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale II.VIII.36, Tesoro, Sommetta
Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale VIII.1375, Tesoro, Sicilian Vespers
Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, Rettorica
Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, Conv. Soppr. F.4.776
Siena, Oratione
Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica, Vat 2418, Taddeo D’Alderotto, Ethica
Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica, Vat. 3203, Li Livres dou Tresor, Italian script, French illuminations
Vatican. Biblioteca Apostolica, Barb. Lat. 4076
Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica, Chig.L.IV.210, Tesoro
Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica, Chig.L.VII.249, Rettorica
Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica, Chig.L.267, Sallust, Epistolario
Vatican Secret Archives, Documents
Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare, DVIII, Li Livres dou Tresor
Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare DXIX, Orazione Toscane
Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare, CCCXCI, Orazione Toscane
Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, G.75.sup, Tesoro
Udine, Li Livres dou Tresor, Italian script
Palermo, Michele Amari, Vespri Siciliani e mss
Madrid, 10124, Ethica, Italian script
Escorial L.II.3, Li Livres dou Tresor, Italian script
Barcelona, Llibre de Croniques
Karlsruhe, Li Livres dou Tresor, Italian script
Krakov, Jagellonian, Tesoretto
New York, Pierpont Morgan, 814, Li Livres dou Tresor, Italian script, French illuminations
Yale, Marston 28, Ethica
Yale, Marston 247, Epistolaria
Columbia University, Plimpton, 281, Li Livres dou Tresor

See also the Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei book holdings at: http://www.florin.ms/libgimel.html#brunettolatino
including the Moleiro manuscript facsimile of the St Petersburg Li Livres du Tresor below and its commentary volume:

Publications:

Brunetto Latini. Li Livres dou Tresor: St Petersburg, Russian National Library, Fr.F.v.III n° 4.  Barcelona: Moleiro, 2000. Facsimile edition. mmoleiro@moleiro.com
 

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Julia Bolton Holloway, Twice-Told Tales: Brunetto Latino and Dante Alighieri. New York: Peter Lang , 1993. xiv + 552 pp., plates, maps. ISBN 0-8204-1954-0. Reviewed, Gloria Allaire, Annali d'italianistica. Available for 25 euro/dollars, from Julia Bolton Holloway To order use PayPal

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Brunetto Latini: An Analytic Bibliography . London: Grant and Cutler, 1986. Research Bibliographies and Checklists. Ed. Alan Deyermond. 153 pp. Reviewed: Italian Studies; Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie; Les Lettres Romanes; Romanische Forschungen. ISBN 0-7293-0216-4 or 84-599-1681-2.
Available for 15 euro/dollars from Julia Bolton Holloway

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Michael Kleine, Searching for Latini http://www.parlorpress.com/kleine.html

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DANTE ALIGHIERI WEBSITE PORTAL

http://ia350632.us.archive.org/1/items/divina_commedia_librivox/divina_commedia_01_alighieri.mp3 §
Recording of the Commedia in Italian by LibriVox

Italian Dante Manuscripts Website §

Italian Text, with Commentary §

Centro Dantesco Frati Minori Conventuali - Ravenna §

Columbia, Digital Dante §

The Princeton Dante Project § 

Thanks to Giorgio Nencetti for Ermelinda M. Campani, 'La Cultur@ in Internet: Dante in rete per studiosi e studenti', for many entries.

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