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GIOVANNI d'Aragona, Cardinal (1456-1485). Autograph [?] document addressed to Francesco Gaddi, Naples, 16 December 1482, in Latin, entitled 'Memoriale ad vui Messer Francesco per noi don Joanni Cardenale de Aragonia', naming five copyists, Antonio Sinibaldi, Pietro Strozzi, Neri Rinuccini, Niccolò Mangone, and ser Giovanni da Fiesole, who were preparing manuscripts for him in Florence, 12 lines on one page, 235 x 195mm, papered seal (a few small holes touching 3 letters); and
Two letters: the first written and signed in his name, in the hand of G. de Flisco, to Antonio Sinibaldi, Naples, 15 June 1476, asking him to send a manuscript of Augustine for examination and looking forward to his return to Naples, 10 lines on one page, 190 x 213mm, address panel on verso, traces of red wax seal (a few tiny holes, slight discolouration along folds, folds beginning to separate at extreme edges); the second written in his name, in the hand of Loisius de Curtis, to Francesco Gaddi, Naples, 7 February 1483, expressing his thanks for the loan by Lorenzo de' Medici of a manuscript of a work on agriculture and asking him to lend another manuscript for copying, 10 lines on one page, 227 x 210mm, address panel and contemporary endorsement on verso, papered seal (two small holes). Bibl. Arag. I, 52, 86, 88.
Giovanni d'Aragona, grandson of King Ferrante of Naples, and fourth son of Alfonso, Duke of Calabria, was named a cardinal in 1478. As papal legate to Hungary he made the acquaintance of Matthias Corvinus and undoubtedly of his library of humanistic manuscripts copied and illuminated in Italy. Giovanni is known to have commissioned a number of manuscripts, some of them by Florentine scribes, such as Antonio Sinibaldi, who also carried out commissions for the King of Hungary.
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Two letters: the first written and signed in his name, in the hand of G. de Flisco, to Antonio Sinibaldi, Naples, 15 June 1476, asking him to send a manuscript of Augustine for examination and looking forward to his return to Naples, 10 lines on one page, 190 x 213mm, address panel on verso, traces of red wax seal (a few tiny holes, slight discolouration along folds, folds beginning to separate at extreme edges); the second written in his name, in the hand of Loisius de Curtis, to Francesco Gaddi, Naples, 7 February 1483, expressing his thanks for the loan by Lorenzo de' Medici of a manuscript of a work on agriculture and asking him to lend another manuscript for copying, 10 lines on one page, 227 x 210mm, address panel and contemporary endorsement on verso, papered seal (two small holes). Bibl. Arag. I, 52, 86, 88.
Giovanni d'Aragona, grandson of King Ferrante of Naples, and fourth son of Alfonso, Duke of Calabria, was named a cardinal in 1478. As papal legate to Hungary he made the acquaintance of Matthias Corvinus and undoubtedly of his library of humanistic manuscripts copied and illuminated in Italy. Giovanni is known to have commissioned a number of manuscripts, some of them by Florentine scribes, such as Antonio Sinibaldi, who also carried out commissions for the King of Hungary.
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