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ATANAGI, Dionigi, editor (1504-1573)
De le lettere di tredici huomini illustri libri tredici
[Vincenzo Valgrisi?], 1554
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Govi Libreria Antiquaria
(Modena, Italy)
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Basso, pp. 175-177; Braida, p. 305; Edit 16, CNCE 49067; Quondam, p. 281; A. Caro, Lettere familiari, A. Greco, ed., (Firenze, 1957-1961), passim; M.A. Flaminio, Lettere, A. Pastore, ed., (Roma, 1978), p. 12; M. Fumaroli, L'age de l'éloquence: rhétorique et ‘res literaria' de la Renaissance au seuil de l'époque classique, (Genève, 2002), p. 781, no. 798; G. Guidiccioni, Lettere, M.T. Graziosi, ed., (Roma, 1979), passim; B. Tasso, Lettere, D. Rasi & A. Chemello, eds., (Sala Bolognese), 2002, passim.
COUNTERFEIT of the original edition printed at Rome by Valerio and Luigi Dorico at Dionigi Atanagi's expenses in March 1554 with a papal privilege for ten years.
The only difference between the two editions, (apart the lacking of both privileges, Latin and Italian, and of the colophon in the pirated edition), lies in the correction of the final sentence in each book. In the Roman edition each section ends ‘Il fine del primo [-undecimo] libro de le Lettere di dodici huomini illustri', what clearly shows that the thirteenth book, (that of Paolo Sadoleto, the compiler of the Latin privilege), was added after the printing of the first twelve was completed. In the Venice counterfeit every final sentence has been corrected to ‘Lettere di tredici huomini illustri'.
The collection is dedicated by Dionigi Atanagi to Giulio Feltrio della Rovere, cardinal of Urbino. In 1556 Girolamo Ruscelli published a new edition, to which he added two more books (Lettere di diversi autori eccellenti, Venezia, Giordano Ziletti, 1556). But the fame of Atanagi's anthology was greatly increased by Pier Paolo Vergerio's pamphlet entitled Giudicio sopra le lettere di tredeci huomini uomini illustri publicate da m. Dionigi Atanagi et stampate in Venetia nell'anno 1554 (Tübingen, Morhart, 1555), in which he points to the unorthodox nature of many letters, causing, supposedly, a major embarrassment to the editor, who at that time lived in Rome.
The thirteen authors, whose letters (219 overall) Atanagi collected, are: Lodovico Canossa, bishop of Bayeux (25 letters); Giovanni Battista Sanga, papal secretary (21); Giovanni Guidiccioni, bishop of Fossombrone (24); Gian Matteo Giberti, bishop of Verona (17); Francesco della Torre, Giberti's secretary (18); Jacopo Sadoleto, bishop of Carpentras (14); Niccolò Ardinghelli, secretary to cardinal Alessandro Farnese and, subsequently, to Pope Paul III (16); Marco Antonio Flaminio (21); Paolo Giovio, bishop of Nocera (6); Bernardo Tasso (11); Annibale Caro (13); Claudio Tolomei (18); Paolo Sadoleto, Jacopo's nephew and successor to the bishopric of Carpentras (15).
“D'après les nombreuses lettres datées, l'ordre chronologique est respecté à deux niveaux: en premier lieu, à l'interieur de chaque livre, à de rares erreurs de mois près; en second lieu, dans le classement des livres fait d'après la dernière date donnée pour chaque épistolier; or, pour L. Canossa, cette dernière date (23 nov. 1527) est bien la plus ancienne de toutes; celles-ci se succèdent dans un ordre rigoureusement chronologique du livre I au livre IX (pour ce dernier: 26 sept. 1552); ensuite dans les livres X à XIII, ces dernières dates marquent des légers retours en arrière, dans le désordre: 1550, 1550, 1548, enfin août 1552 pour la denière lettre du recueil. Les dates extrêmes indiquées dans l'ensemble du volume sont le 9 août 1524 et le 26 sept. 1552… Ces épistoliers font une grande place aux affaires politiques, particulièrment les premiers. Leurs professions ne sont sans doute pas sans rapport avec l'impression d'unité que donne le volume: 7 évêques et 5 secrétaires dont 4 au service d'ecclésiastiques tous des milieux très influents, pour 1 lettré ciceronien lié aux precedents mais plus indépendant, bientôt jugé à la limite de l'hérésie et exulsé du recueil (Flaminio)” (J. Basso,