Giustina Levi-Perotti of Sassoferrato was the (likely fictitious) 14th-century Jewish author of two Petrarchan sonnets.[1]
The first, a sonnet beginning "Io vorrei pur drizzar queste mie piume," to which Petrarch is said to have replied with his sonnet "La gola, il sonno, e l'oziose piume," was published for the first time in 1564 by G. A. Gilio, who, however, attributed it to Ortensia di Guglielmo of Fabriano. It was republished by Giacomo Filippo Tomasini (Petrarca Redivivus, 1635), who attributed it to Giustina. Subsequently, it was included in various collections of poetry, down to 1885. Although Crescimbeni,[2] Tiraboschi,[3] and Zeno[4] doubted the authenticity of the sonnet, scholars like Quadrio and, with some hesitation, Foscolo accepted it.[5][6] Claudio Morici and later literary critics concluded that the sonnet is the work of a 16th-century writer, and that Giustina Levi-Perotti never existed.[1][7]
References edit
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Jacobs, Joseph; Cassuto, Umberto (1904). "Levi-Perotti, Giustina". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 37.
- ^ a b Sermoneta, Joseph Baruch (2007). "Levi-Perotti, Giustina". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.
- ^ Crescimbeni, Giovanni Mario (1730). Dell' Istoria della Volgar Poesia. Venice. pp. iii. 164 et seq.
- ^ Tiraboschi, Girolamo. Storia della letteratura italiana. Florence.
- ^ Zeno, Apostolo. Dissertazioni Vossiane. Venice. p. i. 257b.
- ^ Quadrio, Francesco Saverio. Della Storia e della Ragione d'Ogni Poesia. Milan. pp. i.–ii. 187–188, 194–195.
- ^ Foscolo, Ugo (1859). Opere Edite e Inedite, x. 409. Florence.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Morici, Claudio (August 1899). "Giustina Levi-Perotti e le Petrarchiste Marchigiane". La Rassegna Nazionale (in Italian). Firenze: 662–695.