(Tommaso Baldasarre Crudeli, 1702–1745) Two (near) contempor...

(Tommaso Baldasarre Crudeli, 1702–1745) Two (near) contemporary manuscript copies of prose and verse by the Florentine Enlightenment poet. Cicalata del Dottor Tommaso Crudeli, recitata nell'Accademia degli Arabisti nel giorno di Berlingaccio [Cicalata, recited before the Accademia degli Arabisti on the day of Berlingaccio.] Near Contemporary manuscript copy in Italian, quarto, four bifolia, pp. 16 with five blank pages to the rear, black ink on laid paper, written throughout in a neat contemporary cursive hand, generally in very good condition with contemporary folds. A contemporary scribal copy of one of Crudeli's characteristic comic prose discourses, composed for recitation before the Accademia degli Arabisti during the Carnival festivities of Berlingaccio, probably copied c.1748–1750. Together with: Versi del Dottore Tommaso Crudeli, recitati a Gio. Gascone (or Gastone), che gli comandò di dire qualche cosa per divertirlo [Verses by Dr Tommaso Crudeli, recited to Giovanni Gascone (or Gastone), who requested that he say something to amuse him.] Contemporary manuscript copy in Italian, quarto, two bifolia, pp. 6 with final blank, black ink on laid paper, preserving its original folded format, generally in very good condition, [c.1748-1750]. (2) Tommaso Baldasarre Crudeli (1702–1745) was a Florentine poet, lawyer and one of the leading figures of the Italian Enlightenment. His prosecution by the Roman Inquisition for alleged Masonic activity secured his enduring reputation as a champion of intellectual liberty, while his writings continued to circulate widely in both manuscript and printed form throughout eighteenth-century Italy. (Franco Venturi, The End of the Old Regime in Europe.)

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