Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459; Italy -- History -- 1268-1492
1. _Francisci Barbari Veneti pro insigni Viro Joannino Conradino Veneto
Physico Epitaphios Logos._ Manuscript copies of this oration were
preserved in the Dominican monastery of S. Nicolò, in Trivigi, and in the
library of Apostolo Zeno.
2. _Francisci Barbari Veneti Laudatio in Albertum Guidalotum cum eum in
Academâ Patavinâ J. V. laureâ decoraret._ This oration was published
by Bernardo Pez, in a collection entitled _Thesarurus novissimus
Anecdotorum_.
3. _Francisci Barbari Veneti ad insignem Laurentium de Medicis
Florentinum de Re Uxoriâ Liber._ The autograph of this treatise is
preserved in the Medicean library at Florence; an early edition of it, of
uncertain date, was printed at Antwerp. In the year 1513 it was printed
at Paris, in 4to. _in œdibus Ascensianis_. In 1533 it was printed at
Hagenau, in 8vo. A duodecimo edition of it was published at Strasbourg,
in 1612; and another in the same form at Amsterdam, by John Janson, in
1639. This treatise was twice translated into the French language, first
by Martin du Pin, and afterwards by Claude Joly. A beautiful MS. copy of
the original Latin is preserved in the Cheetham library, in Manchester.
4. _Eloquentissimi ac Patricii viri Francisci Barbari Veneti Vitæ
Aristidis et Majoris Catonis a Plutarcho conscriptæ, a Græco in Latinum
versæ._ This translation was printed in an edition of Plutarch’s lives,
published at Venice, by Nicolas Jenson, A. D. 1478, in folio; and in the
Basil folio edition of the same work, printed by Bebelius in 1535. In
Jenson’s edition, the version of the life of Aristides is erroneously
ascribed to Leonardo Aretino.
5. _Oratio Clariss. Viri Francisci Barbari ad Sigismundum Cæsarem pro
Republicâ Venetá acta Ferrariæ._ Agostini has printed this oration in his
_Istoria degli Scrittori Viniziani_, after a MS. copy belonging to Marco
Foscarini.
6. _Oratio Francisci Barbari Patricii Veneti, habita, anno 1438, in
templo Sanctorum Faustini et Jovitæ cum civitatis Brixiensis Magistratum
iniret._ This oration is to be found in Pez’s Thesaurus.
7. _Francisci Barbari P. V. Apologia ad Mediolanenses pro populo
Brixiensi, anno 1439._ A MS. copy of this work is preserved in the
Vatican library.
8. _Oratio Francisci Barbari P. V. ad Populum Brixiensem in renunciatione
illius Civitatis._ This is in fact a report of an extempore speech of
Francesco’s, composed from memory by Manelli, in whose Commentaries it is
printed.
9. _Francisci Barbari, et aliorum ad ipsum Epistolæ ab anno Christi 1425,
ad annum 1453, nunc primum editæ ex duplici MS. Cod. Brixiano et Vaticano
uno, &c. Brixiæ excudebat Joannes Maria Rizzardi, 1743, in Quarto magno._
This collection of Francesco’s epistles, which was edited by Cardinal
Quirini, contains 284 of his letters, besides 94 addressed to him by
various correspondents. In the learned dissertation prefixed to this
publication, the cardinal has quoted at length fourteen other epistles of
Barbaro.
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