The formal letter announcing the donation is preserved in Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana ms Lat. XIV, 14 (=4235) and is on-line at Internet Culturale [it]. The documents relative to the donation are transcribed in Labowsky, Bessarion's Library..., pp. 147–156.
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As per Law 106/2004 and the relative applicable decree DPR 252/2006, a publisher has legal deposit requirements on the basis of its legal seat, regardless of the printing location. See Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana (official website), Deposito legale [accessed 2 July 2020]
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana (official website), Lascito bessarioneo [accessed 7 March 2020]
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana (official website), Patrimonio librario [accessed 21 September 2019]
The formal letter announcing the donation is preserved in Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana ms Lat. XIV, 14 (=4235) and is on-line at Internet Culturale [it]. The documents relative to the donation are transcribed in Labowsky, Bessarion's Library..., pp. 147–156.
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Bramante's solution for the choir of Saint Peter's consisted in placing a metope, and not a triglyph, over the lesenes. This solution, highly criticized by Guillaume Philandrier [fr] in his treatise In decem libros M. Vitruvii (Lyons: Jean de Tournes, 1552), was adopted by Antonio da Sangallo for Palazzo Baldassini and by Raphael for Palazzo Jacopo da Brescia. Giuliano da Sangallo's rendition of the Basilica Aemilia shows the triglyph off-centered with respect to the pilaster. The same architect proposed two solutions for the design of San Lorenzo in Florence: an angular triglyph or an axial triglyph followed by a reduced metope. See Morresi, Jacopo Sansovino, pp. 451–453 (note 139 for bibliographical references).
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Marino Zorzi attributes the sense of urgency in Bessarion's donation to the conspiracy to assassinate Pope Paul II in February 1468 and the resulting arrest, imprisonment, and torture of several noted Roman humanists, members of the Academy of Julius Pomponius Laetus, who were largely associated with Bessarion's own intellectual circle. There were additional charges of heresy that reflected the pope's deep aversion to Platonism, secular poetry, rhetoric, and astrology. Zorzi argues that in this climate of suspicion and repression, Bessarion would have been anxious to quickly remove his library to safety, outside the territory of the Papal States. See Zorzi, La libreria di san Marco..., pp. 80–82. For a detailed discussion of the assassination plot against Paul II, see Anthony F. D'Elia, A Sudden Terror: The Plot to Murder the Pope in Renaissance Rome (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009) ISBN0674061810. For Paul II's relationship with Humanism, see A. J. Dunston, 'Pope Paul II and the Humanists', Journal of Religious History, 7 (1983), pp. 287–306 ISSN1467-9809.
The issue is summarized in Deborah Howard, 'The Length of the Library', Ateneo veneto, Anno CXCVII, terza serie, 9/11 (2010), pp. 23–29, ISSN0004-6558.
This Ionic base, utilized once by Palladio for Palazzo Porto in Vicenza, is believed to have been part of the Villa of Lucullus at Frascati. See Maria Barbara Guerrieri Borsoi, Villa Rufina Falconieri: la rinascita di Frascati e la più antica dimora tuscolana (Roma: Gangemi, 2008), p. 13, ISBN8849214065. For a discussion and comparison with the Attic and Vitruvian bases for the Ionic order, see Howard Burns, '"Ornamenti" and ornamentation in Palladio's architectural theory and practice', Pegasus: Berliner Beiträge zum Nachleben der Antike, 11 (2009), pp. 49–50, ISSN1436-3461.
