A Bononi Triptych of Ancient Editions, among Bibliophilia, Poetry and Poetics

Abstract

The essay focuses on a white felt envelope which contains three rare bibliographic works which entered the library of Loris Jacopo Bononi in different periods (Confessione utile e breve di Bernardino da Feltre, s.d.t; Luigi Pulci, La Giostra di Lorenzo de’ Medici, Firenze, Francesco di Iacopo cartolaio, 1518; Opera vecchia nella quale intenderai uno insonio con la sua tramutatione et altre napo[li]tane, s.d.t. [1590]) and, on the basis of Bononi's poetics, tries to offer an explanation of why their owner had placed them together, almost as if he could see in them three symbols of peculiar aspects of the Italian Renaissance.