Title: Discorso di Curzio Inghirami sopra l'opposizioni fatte all'Antichità Toscane Diviso in Docidi Trattati
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[i.e.1069], [4] pages (last 3 blank). P. 329 followed by 340. Signatures:
†⁴a⁴b²A-6V⁴. Contemporary vellum, manuscript spine title partly covered with
label, manuscript mark "E". Plate of Federigo Marsili Libelli.
Manuscript notes on title page: "E761"; "B301" (crossed);
"Lori S. Pauli Momis [Bonavis?]" Marginalia on 5G recto. Printer's
device on title page, showing a putto with the initials "A" and
"M". Engraved initials, head- and tailpieces. Printed annotations.</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only edition of this work by
the 19-year-old aristocrat Curzio Inghirami of Volterra, who had created,
buried, and subsequently helped to disinter a host of ‘Etruscan’ fragments,
which–reassembled and ‘translated’, Etruscan being a language conveniently
unknown to any living scholar–told the sad story of the Roman destruction of
Etruria in 60 BC. The current book is Inghirami’s reply to disbelievers in the
Etruscan fragments, with a straight-faced consideration of who the forger, if
any, might be – including ‘exonerations’ of Annius of Viterbo, Guillaume
Postel, Thomas Dempster, ‘and, last, but certainly not least, Curzio himself’
(I. Rowland, The Scarith of Scornello. A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. Chicago,
2004, p. 100 (also pp. 96-97, 105, 111-12). This work is kept with another copy,
slightly imperfect, but marked up by Niccolò Maria Lisci, Inghirami’s first
serious critic, toward a new edition, which never appeared. This copy has
distinct paging with numerous errors, corrected in ink (by Lisci?): pp. [2]
(blank), [ii], iij-xvj, 329, 340-371, 374-1089 [i.e. 1079], [3] (blank).</span></p><p></p>

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