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Name Trionfi - wild Notebook

Triumph of Fame - 1449 Birth of Lorenzo de Medici
Bacchus and Ariadne - Lorenzo de Medici - I Trionfi.- (trionfo di Bacco e Arianna \ trionfo dei sette pianeti). “Trionfo” significa corteo trionfale. Lorenzo descrive un corteo carnevalesco di carri allegorici e cittadini mascherati. I personaggi, tratti dalla mitologia celebrano la bellezza della vita e la gioia dell’amore
Florentine Festival - Trionfi - modern interpretation
Bacchus and Ariadne - text
Burckhardt, chapter to Trionfi - text
Book description - from Antonio Grazzinimodern interpretation
Jacob Burckhardt

Note: [GRAZZINI, Antonio Francesco, ed.].
Tutti i Trionfi, Carri, Mascherate, o Canti Carnascialeschi andati per Firenze dal tempo del Magnifico Lorenzo de' Medici fino all'Anno 1559. In questa seconda Edizione corretti, con diversi mss. collazionati, delle loro varie lezioni arricchiti, notabilm Pel Benedini]: "In Cosmopoli" [Lucca:, 1750. Two volumes. 4to, contemporary calf, spines decorated with giltstamped floral devices within double-gilt-ruled compartments between gilt-ruled raised bands, two later giltlettered spine labels per volume. lx, [1]-256; [257]-594 pp. Engraved allegorical pictorial title-pages and 43 inserted portraits engraved after contemporary prints, paintings, and medallions. Volume I rebacked, with original spine laid down; covers aged; but a handsome set indeed. Second Edition, enlarged and illustrated, of this collection of songs for carnivals, processions, masquerades, etc., that was first published in 1559. The compiler, Antonio Grazzini, better known as "Il Lasca, Academico Fiorentino," was a quarrelsome scholar who is regarded as one of the masters of Italian prose. This long-delayed second edition was edited by Rinaldo Maria Bracci, under the pseudonym of Neri del Boccia. Lorenzo di Medici was fond of the sorts of public spectacles during which these songs were performed and wrote numerous pieces himself--including the great & sprightly "Quant' è bella giovinezza" that opens this collection. And even Machiavelli composed a "Canto de' Diavoli." This form of popular verse died along with the festivities that had given birth to it. Brunet, who sneers at this edition as "médiocre et très-commune," distinguished between two issues. This copy belongs to the latter one, which has a corrected text but 'worn-out' engravings. [Brunet, V, cols. 988-989. Gamba 268. Graesse, VI: II, p. 217.]