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Annotations by Gabriel Harvey in Facetie, motti, et burle di diversi signori et persone private and Detti, et fatti piacevoli et gravi, di diversi principi filosofi, et cortigiani [manuscript], ca. 1580-1608?.

211 leaves ; 16 x 11 cm

Copious annotations in a volume consisting of p. 321-464 of Lodovico Domenichi's Facetie, motti, et burle di diversi signori et persone private (Venice : Appresso Andrea Muschio, 1571) and Lodovico Guiccardini's Detti, et fatti piacevoli et gravi, di diversi principi filosofi, et cortigiani (Venice : Appresso Christoforo de'Zanetti, 1571). Includes cross-references to numerous other works and authors, including Philip Sidney and the "the Tragedie of Hamlet; Richard 3" (leaf 162r). Also includes commentary on politics and the monarchy, and notes outlining Harvey's strategies for his self-improvement and study. At the end of the volume, a list of books for civilized elocution ("Propria Eulogi bibliotheca ... 1590"), including many of the authors already praised in the margins.

In Latin, English, and Italian.

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The Elizabethan view of Italy : [an exhibition] March 24-June 12, 1993, The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. / Miranda Johnson-Haddad ; with Mary Tonkinson, Werner Gundersheimer, Robert Eisenstein. Washington, D.C. : The Library, [1993].
"The pen's excellencie" : treasures from the manuscript collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library / compiled and edited by Heather Wolfe. Seattle : Distributed by University of Washington Press, 2002, p. 134-137.

Exhibited: The Elizabethan view of Italy, curated by Miranda Johnson-Haddad ; with Mary Tonkinson, Werner Gundersheimer, Robert Eisenstein, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., March 24-June 12, 1993.
Exhibited: "The Pen's Excellencie" : Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library, curated by Heather Wolfe, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., February 6- June 8, 2002.
Exhibited: "Thys Boke is Myne," curated by Richard Kuhta, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., November 13, 2002-March 1, 2003
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2006-2007. Technologies of Writing in the Age of Print.
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2016. Shakespeare, Life of an Icon. Opening p. 146-147

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