Una lettera inedita dal Sacco di Roma: qualche novità su Colocci, il «libro di portughesi» e il Libro reale

This paper publishes and provides a commentary to a hitherto unknown letter, sent by Pier Andrea Ripanti to the Italian humanist Angelo Colocci (1474-1549) at the time of the Sack of Rome. It appears to be connected to three other documents: a letter that Antonio Tebaldeo sent to Colocci some months before, and two lists of books included in ms Vat. lat. 4817. The study of these documents (and particularly of the letter by Ripanti, which contains a list of books that escaped the destruction during the Sack) allows us to gather new information for the reconstruction of Angelo Colocci’s library. The essay identifies new volumes that belonged to Colocci and dwells primarily upon the fortune of two lost manuscripts of his: the Libro reale (a 15th century collection of medieval Italian poems) and the Libro di portughesi (a similar collection of Galician-portuguese medieval poetry).