Beinecke MS 573
Rome (?), s. XIX
Poggio, Letter to Galeotto Ricasoli, 3 Febr. 1433 (forgery)

Magnifice domine et domine mi observandissime, scripsit ad me Sanctis noster se plurimum 
molestari a nonnullis, qui invidia et malevolentia moti agmine facto variis in rebus eum vexant ... 
Id tibi erit facillimum, cum senserint te adversum eorum votis. Vale et me ama. Rome, III non. 
Febr. 1433. Tuus addictissimus servulus Poggius Fl(orentinus).

[on verso:] Reverendo domino et domino meo colendissimo, domino Galeocto de Ricasulis 
Flor(entino), prothonotario apostolico.

Letter supposedly written by Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459) to the protonotary apostolic 
Galeotto Ricasoli, asking his intervention in favour of a certain Santi pursued by his enemies.


Paper, f. 1, 145 x 215 mm.

9 lines.

Written in a good imitation of Humanistic Cursive. The signature is in Capitals.

Albinia C. de la Mare in a letter to Marjorie G. Wynne dated 21 Oct. 1975 denounced the 
manuscript as "one of a number of  similar  forgeries of letters by Poggio and other humanists 
which were probably made in Rome in the 19th century". See about them M. Regoliosi,  "Nuove 
ricerche intorno a Giovanni Tortelli", Italia Medioevale e Umanistica, 9 (1966), pp. 123-189, 
particularly pl. II on p. 132.
Collection of Karl Geigy-Hagenbach. Stargart Sale, 30-31 May 1961. Gift of Hans P. Kraus, 
1975.

Albert Derolez

Updated 30.11.2007