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COLLECTION Identifier: MS Ital 115

Humanist letters

Overview

Letters from various Italian humanists of the sixteenth century.

Dates

  • Creation: 1538-1606

Language of Materials

Collection materials are in Italian.

Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions on physical access to this material.

Extent

.1 linear feet (1 volume)

Includes letters of Italian humanists, such as Cardinal Pietro Bembo, Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Count Guidubaldo Bonarelli della Rovere, poet Giambattista Cinzio Giraldi, and Battista Bolognese Munaro, among others.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically.

Physical Location

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

*74M-25. Purchased with the Nash fund from Arthur Freeman, 4 Trowbridge Place, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138; received: 1974 October 17.

Title
Humanist letters: Guide.
Author
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
Language of description
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EAD ID
hou00643

Repository Details

Part of the Houghton Library Repository

Houghton Library is Harvard College's principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, archives, and more. Houghton Library's collections represent the scope of human experience from ancient Egypt to twenty-first century Cambridge. With strengths primarily in North American and European history, literature, and culture, collections range in media from printed books and handwritten manuscripts to maps, drawings and paintings, prints, posters, photographs, film and audio recordings, and digital media, as well as costumes, theater props, and a wide range of other objects. Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse number of primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.

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