[99] Venice, June 20, 1491, in Prose volgari, p. 78.
[100] The letters are in Poliziano’s Epistolæ, book xi.
[101] A. M. Bandini, Ragionamento istorico sulle collazione delle Pandette, ec., Livorno 1762, The copy of the Pandects marked with Poliziano’s collations is preserved in the Laurentianæ. Bandini also speaks of it in the fourth volume of the Catalogue of Latin MSS. See Th. Mommsen’s introduction to his critical edition of the Digestum.
[102] F. Fantozzi, Notizie biografiche di Bernardo Cennini, Florence, 1839. G. Ottino, Di Bernardo Cennini e dell’arte della stampa in Firenze, Florence, 1871. When the first Florentine printer had been almost forgotten for 400 years, the present generation, on occasion of the fourth centenary of his work, has raised a monument to him in San Lorenzo—where he lies buried—placed a memorial tablet on the site of his workshop, and given his name to a street.
[103] ‘Ad lectorem. Florentiæ, VII. Idus Novembres, MCCCCLXXI. Bernardus Cennnius (sic) aurifer omnium iudicio præstantissimus: et Dominicus eius F. egregiæ indolis adolescens: expressis ante calibe caracteribus et deinde fusis literis volumen hoc primum impresserunt. Petrus Cenninus Bernardi eiusdem F. quanta potuit cura et diligentia emendavit ut cernis. Florentinis ingeniis nil ardui est.’
[104] P. Vinc. Fineschi, Notizie istoriche sopra la stamperia di [S. Jacopo di] Ripoli, Flor. 1761. D. Moreni in the Novelle letterarie Fiorentine of 1791, and F. Fossi in the Catalogo delle antiche edizioni della B. Magliabechiana, vol. iii., have collected other information concerning the works of this printing establishment amounting to eighty-six in number, among which, curiously enough, a Decameron is included.
[105] Enea Piccolomini, Delle condizioni e delle vicende della libreria Medicea privata, in the Arch. Star. Ital., series iii. vols. xix. and xx. N. Anziani, Della Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Flor. 1872.
[106] Targioni-Tozzetti, Notizie sulla storia delle scienze fisiche in Toscana (ed. by Fr. Palermo), Flor. 1853, pp. 60, 61.
[107] Med. Arch.
[108] Fabroni, l. c. i. 153; ii. 286.