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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 186
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin, Ancient Greek, Italian
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    • Pliny, the Elder
    • Paul, the Deacon, ca. 720-799?
    • Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, the younger, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 149
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century
    Language
    French, Italian
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    • Charles, Duke of Bourbon (1490-1527)
    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • Diego de San Pedro is a Spanish pre-Renaissance poet and storyteller; perhaps he was of Hebrew origin
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 57
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 1378
    Language
    Italian, Latin
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    • John of Burgundy
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Copied in 1378 by Francesco di maestro Tura of Cesena, who included both a date and a signature at the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 12
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, beginning of the 15th century
    Language
    Italian
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    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • There is only a single medieval Italian translation of Augustine’s De civitate Dei (City of God), an
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 172
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, around 1490
    Language
    Italian
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    • Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, the younger, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • This late Renaissance Italian humanist manuscript contains excerpts of various works by Latin and Greek
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 4
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin, French, Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Manuscript from Italy with the widely disseminated and successful collection of Medieval Latin fables
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 131
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, late 14th century
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This manuscript unites two different collections of Italian poetry: a collection of 380 poems by Petrarch
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, T-3.3
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, n.d. [Ferrara, 1576]
    Language
    Italian
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    • into consideration certain critiques and suggestions when editing his verses during the summer of 1576
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, M-45.1
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, undated [1541]
    Language
    Italian
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    • Michelangelo (1475-1564) addressed this sonnet and his dedication to one of his closest friends, the
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 39
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 1467
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The Elegia di madonna Fiammetta, dedicated to "women in love", describes in the first person the feelings
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 130
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, around 1500
    Language
    Italian, Latin
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    • This codex was produced in the opening years of the 16th century.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 78
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 14th century (around 1370?)
    Language
    Latin, Italian
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    • Its 187 miniatures crafted by Giustino da Forli portray the most important scenes of the Trojan War against
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 37
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 14th century (1360-1370)
    Language
    Italian
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    • of the rough shepherd Ameto into a virtuous man after overhearing the stories told by seven nymphs,
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 55
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, first half of the 14th century
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The "Codex Guarneri" was written on paper fewer than twenty years after the death of Dante.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 94
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    e-codices
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The Laudi by the Italian Franciscan Jacopone da Todi are religious-inspired poems, written as ballads
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 56
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, end of the 14th century
    Language
    Italian
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    • The "Codex Ricasoli Firidolfi", written on paper at the end of the 14th century, provides important evidence