Lorenzo Lippi, Antonio Malatesti

An early handwritten manuscript of Lippi's Il Malmantile Racquistato.

• Perlone Zipoli [Lorenzo Lippi] (Italian).
• Antonio Malatesti (Italian).
• [n.p.]: [n.p], [c. 1675]. 
• Octavo.
• [324 pages].
• Undated ink manuscript in an unidentified 17th-century Italian hand. 
• Bound in full contemporary vellum ("boards" composed of multiple sheets of 17th-century sheets).

The present manuscript differs from one or both of the 17th-century editions in multiple points. Title page includes a dedication to Cardinal Leopoldo de Medici (lacking in the first printed edition), and attributes the work to Lippi's pseudonym Perlone Zipoli - unlike both 17th-century editions. The title page is followed by the prefatory Disfatto, here attributed to the anagrammatic pseudonym Amostante Latoni (Antonio Malatesti). The work is then prefaced by an index revealing the "true identities" of all the figures appearing pseudonymously in the work. Contrary to both printed editions, each book is here referred to as canto rather than cantare, and each stanza is numbered (similarly to the 1688 edition, and unlike the 1676 edition).