Il codice D11 della Capitolare di Padova nella tradizione illustrativa del "De re militari" di Roberto Valturio

• Autores: Enrica Guzzonato
• Localización: Rivista di storia della miniatura, ISSN 1126-4772, Nº. 17, 2013, págs. 137-147
• Idioma: italiano
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  • The essay focuses on the manuscripts of "De re militari" by Roberto Valturio written by Iohannes Nydenna in 1472 for the Bishop of Padua Jacopo Zeno and illuminated by the Paduan master Giovanni Vendramin. The manuscript, now in the Biblioteca Capitolare of Padua (ms D11), is examinated in its character and in relation with other specimens of the same work in the effort of trying to figure out which might have been its model. After a brief examination of the earliest manuscripts of the "De re militari", carried out in the first half of the Sixties in Rimini at the court of Sigismondo Malatesta, to whom the work was dedicated, the research shows that, starting from 1465 and years later, even the Veneto became a major center for the production of the treaty and its illustrations, as demonstrated by the "editio princeps" published in Verona in 1472, the manuscript of the Capitolare of the same year, and a manuscript in the Library of Congress in Washington (Rosenwald Collection 7) probably a little later. These three volumes are very similar to each other especially for the 'misura grande' of the figures and the manuscripts of Capitolare certainly shows to derive from a Malatestian model because, in some of its war machines, the unmistakable rosette of Sigismondo Malatesta and his initial S appear. A typical Venetian insert is the representation of St. Mark's lion in place of the Visconti snake in one of the banners at f. 170. Based on a series of cross-comparisons, the research concludes that the two manuscripts and the incunabulum were more likely to result from a single Malatestian specimen existing in Veneto and now lost.