The last leaf of MS Toledo, Archivo y Biblioteca Capitulares, Zelada 104 6 (fol. 267 verso), the famous Dante copied by Boccaccio, has a very fine portrait of Homer, visible only in ultraviolet light. Identification is made possible by a caption based on Inferno iv 88, «Homero poeta sovrano». Beneath the drawing Boccaccio wrote a few barely legible words in Greek lettering. A decipherment is offered: it is Boccaccio’s signature.
Petoletti, M., Martinelli Tempesta, S., Il ritratto di Omero e la firma greca di Boccaccio, <<ITALIA MEDIOEVALE E UMANISTICA>>, 2013; 54 (N/A): 399-409 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/60145]
Il ritratto di Omero e la firma greca di Boccaccio
Petoletti, Marco;
2013
Abstract
The last leaf of MS Toledo, Archivo y Biblioteca Capitulares, Zelada 104 6 (fol. 267 verso), the famous Dante copied by Boccaccio, has a very fine portrait of Homer, visible only in ultraviolet light. Identification is made possible by a caption based on Inferno iv 88, «Homero poeta sovrano». Beneath the drawing Boccaccio wrote a few barely legible words in Greek lettering. A decipherment is offered: it is Boccaccio’s signature.
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