Pietro Ippolito da Luni

Pietro Ippolito da Luni (Latin: Petrus Hippolytus Lunensis) was the royal scribe (librarius regius) of the Kingdom of Naples from 1472 to 1492.[1] He was a native of the Lunigiana.[2]

Valencia MS 692

In 1473, Ippolito copied manuscripts 692 and 408 of the Biblioteca Històrica [ca] of the University of Valencia. Both were illuminated by Cola Rapicano and ended up in the library of Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria.[3] In 1491–1493, in collaboration with the illuminator Matteo Felice [fr], Ippolito copied Harley 3481 and Harley 3482 of the British Library and Est. lat. 469 of the Biblioteca Estense for King Ferdinand I.[4]

Besides his work for the royal court, Ippolito copied manuscripts for several members of the Carafa family. He copied the manuscript Reg. lat. 812 for Count Diomede Carafa; Vat. lat. 7230 for the count's son, Giovan Tommaso Carafa; Vat. lat. 3551 for Cardinal Oliviero Carafa; and Vat. lat. 3297 for the cardinal's nephew, Bernardino Carafa. All these manuscripts are now in the Vatican Library.[5]

In addition to a copyist, Ippolito was a scholar and translator. He sometimes engaged in sophisticated textual criticism. According to his notice, he edited the text of Marsilio Ficino's translations of Plato in Harley 3481.[4] A similar note appears in Reg. lat. 1792.[6]

Between about 1491 and 1492, Ippolito created an anthology of philosophical sayings drawn from works he had copied, translating them from Latin into Tuscan. Entitled Auree Sententie e Proverbi Platonici, this anthology is founded in Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, XII E 32, where it is illustrated by Felice. It may be a presentation copy for an unknown patron.[4] The manuscript XII E 31 contains a lapidarium translated by Ippolito for the courtier Aloysio Corellio.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Michael D. Reeve (2003), "Modestus, scriptor rei militaris", in Pierre Lardet (ed.), La tradition vive: Mélanges d'histoire des textes en l'honneur de Louis Holtz, Brepols, pp. 417–432, doi:10.1484/m.bib-eb.3.1418.
  2. ^ a b Carlo Giordano (1912), "Un lapidario in volgare del sec. XV", Studii dedicati a Francesco Torraca nel XXXVI anniversario della sua laurea, Francesco Perrella, pp. 65–80.
  3. ^ Marci Fabii Quintiliani De institutione oratoria and Elegantiarum Laurentii Vallae at RODERIC, Universitat de València.
  4. ^ a b c Matteo Soranzo (2011), "Reading Marsilio Ficino in Quattrocento Italy: The Case of Aragonese Naples", Quaderni d'italianistica, 32 (2): 27–46.
  5. ^ Adriana Marucchi (1974), "Note su un nuovo manoscritto Carafa scritto da Ippolito Lunense nel fondo Reginense", Revue d'Histoire des Textes (3–1973): 299–303.
  6. ^ Léopold Delisle (1897), "Review of Hugo Ehrensberger, Libri Liturgici Bibliothecase Apostolicae Vaticanae", Journal des Savants: 284–299.