This study is an attempt at a critical edition of Ghiberti’s second Commentary, providing a transcription -the result of a comparision between the manuscript preserved at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze and the Codex Magliabechiano- and…
The author suggests that Bernardo Vecchietti may have been the anonymus writer behind the Codex Magliabechiano. The theory is in the first place based on a handwriting comparison between the Codex and others Vecchietti’s autographs. The many notes,…
Transcript and notes of Ghiberti’s chapter from Vasari’s “Le Vite”, from Ghiberti’s Commentary, and from the manuscript known as Codex Magliabechiano. In the appendix, other excerpts from Vasari’s book about Ghiberti and some notes about Donatello…
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