The Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine or Ameto, an early work (around
1341) by Boccaccio, recounts the transformation of the rough
shepherd Ameto into a virtuous man after overhearing the stories
told by seven nymphs, allegories of the virtues. The text is
written as a prosimetrum — alternating prose and verse — as is
immediately obvious from the single column page-design of the
manuscript. Copied on paper without watermark, the manuscript opens
with a single initial in watercolor that contains the coats of arms
of the Almerici family (f. 2r), the owner of this copy who probably
also commissioned it.
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