Manuscript, 1542,
24 folios,
17x24 cm,
600 copies.


ISBN 88-86251-14-9

Price: € 280,00

 
CODICE STIVINI
INVENTORY OF THE POSSESSIONS OF ISABELLA D'ESTE GONZAGA




The inventory of Isabella d’Este’s possessions is a 24 folios manuscript, sepia ink on parchment, illuminated and decorated with gold leaf, leather bound with a gold leaf border. It was prepared by Odoardo Stivini, public notary to the Gonzaga court, who in 1542, three years after the death of the Marchioness of Mantua, was appointed to catalogue the works kept in the Studiolo of the Ducal Palace. The 236 items listed are testimonies to the aesthetic taste and collecting mania of this Grand Dame of the Italian Renaissance. Among the many pieces of jewellery, precious gems, antique coins and medals by Pisa­nello, decorated glass and pottery and fine fabrics are also Greek and Roman sculptures, works by Michelangelo, paintings by Mantegna, Giulio Romano, Correggio, Francia and Perugino.
Isabella was born in 1474 in Ferrara, daughter of Duke Ercole I and Eleanor of Aragon. A child prodigy, she was married to Francesco Gonzaga as she was sixteen. She earned the praise of her contemporaries for her natural grace and dignity but also for her command and diplomacy. The life at her court was extremely lively and famous intellectuals and powerful statesmen attended her salon.

Facsimile edition
The codex is printed in 6 colours on paper imitating the original parchment and in the same size as the original, 17 × 24 cm. It is skivertex bound with gold embossing. The edition is presented with the volume Isabella d’Este, la primadonna del Rinascimento, 240 pp., more than 200 color images. 600 numbered copies available for exclusive distribution.
The edition has been presented in the Honour Courtyard of the Mantuan Ducal Palace.


 
 
 

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