[412] Orazione facta per Cristoforo Landino da Pratovecchio, ec.; see Fr. Corrazzini, Miscellanea di cose inedite o rare. Flor. 1853, p. 125 seq.
[413] L. B. Alberti, Opere volgari, i. pp. xvii.-xix., clvii.-ccxxxiv., where these sorry productions are given.
[414] A. M. Biscioni has collected a considerable number of these writings in the Lettere di Santi e Beati Fiorentini, Flor. 1736. C. Guasti’s edition of the Lettere della B. Chiara Gambacorti has been mentioned above. He also printed in his Miscellanea Pratese, No. 5, the touching letter of Sister Costanza Ciaparelli on the death of Feo Belcari’s daughter (Prato, 1861). For more on Feo. Belcari’s letters, see back. The letters of the two St. Caterinas of Siena and de’ Ricci lie beyond the scope of the present work.
[415] D. M. Manni, Sigilli antichi, xix. 127; xx. 39. Poccianti: Chronicon rerum s. ord. Servorum B. M. Virginis, Flor. 1569, p. 3. In Florence there are still a few memorials of the Laudesi. On the Cathedral (formerly Sta. Reparata) is an inscription on the side turned towards the Campanile: ‘S. Societatis Laudensium B. M. Virginis qui congregantur in ecclesia Ste. Reparate, anno Dom. MCCCX. de mense Novemb.’ (see Firenze, antica e moderna illustrata, ii. 112). In Via dello Pappe, now Via Folco Portinari: ‘Questa casa è de la compagnia de Laudesi di Sancta Maria che si raguna in Sancta Liperata.’ The chapel of the Laudesi of Sta. Croce was where the splendid Niccolini chapel began to be built in 1585 (F. Moisè, Santa Croce di Firenze p. 198). In the Decameron (Giorn. vii. Nov. 1) the Laudesi of Sta. Maria Novella and their good-natured superintendent, Gianni Lottaringhi, is mentioned (D. M. Manni, Istoria del Decamerone, p. 460; Fr. Sansovino, in his edition of the Decameron, Ven. 1549); see Fr. Cionacci, Rime sacre di Lorenzo de’ Medici, 2nd edit. Bergamo, 1760, p. xxi.
[416] Laudi spirituali del Bianco da Siena povero Gesuato del sec. XIV. (edited by Telesforo Bini), Lucca, 1851. Feo Belcari’s Vita del B. Giovanni Columbini et di alcuni Jesuati, composed in 1448, but first printed towards 1480 (Gamba, Testi di lingua, 100 seq.). On the Jesuates, G. B. Uccelli, I Convento di S. Giusto alla mura e i Gesuati, Flor. 1865; see ii. 163. The order was dissolved in 1668 by Pope Clement IX.
[417] The most perfect collection of Lauds, especially of the fourteenth century, including Belcari, Lorenzo de’ Medici and his mother, &c., is called Laude spirituali di Feo Belcari, di Lorenzo de’ Medici, di Francesco d’Albizzo, di Castellano Castellani, e di altri, comprese nelle quattro più antiche raccolte, con alcune inedite e con nuove illustrazioni (by G. C. Galletti), Florence 1863, with woodcuts. On the older editions, see Gamba, Testi di Lingua, 105 seq., 576 seq. The hymns of Ugo Panziera were printed by P. Fanfani in the translation of Ozanam’s Poëtes Franciscains, Prato, 1854, and C. Guasti, I Cantici spirituali del B. Ugo Panziera da Prato de’ Frati Minori, Prato 1861 (Miscellanea Pratese, No. iii.). Another collection of hymns to the Virgin and the Saints, edited by Eug. Cecconi: Laudi di una Compagnia fiorentina del secolo XIV, Florence 1870.
[418] D. Moreni, Lettere di Feo Belcari, Flor. 1825. The most complete account of the mysteries, in the literature of which Feo Belcari takes an important place, is given by Colombs de Batines, Bibliografia delle antiche rappresentazioni italiane sacre e profane stampate nei secoli XV e XIV in P. Fanfani’s Etruria, ii. (Flor. 1852), 193. A copious collection of these mysteries was published by Alessandro d’Ancona: Sacre Rappresentazioni dei secoli XIV, XV, XVI, Flor. 1872, three vols.; see J. L. Klein, Geschichte der Drama, iv. Leipsig, 1866.
[419] See Mazzuchelli, Scrittori d’Italia, vol. ii. div. ii. p. 860 seq. for list of his writings.
[420] Florence, November 1, 1530, in G. Milanesi’s edition of the Varchi.
[421] In San Marco. Inscription of the two graves:—