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Giustina Levi-Perotti

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Giustina Levi-Perotti of Sassoferrato was the (likely fictitious) 14th-century Jewish author of two Petrarchan sonnets.[1]

The first, a sonnet beginning "Io vorrei pur drizzar queste mie piume," to which Petrarch is said to have replied with his sonnet "La gola, il sonno, e l'oziose piume," was published for the first time in 1564 by G. A. Gilio, who, however, attributed it to Ortensia di Guglielmo [Wikidata] of Fabriano. It was republished by Giacomo Filippo Tomasini (Petrarca Redivivus, 1635), who attributed it to Giustina. Subsequently, it was included in various collections of poetry, down to 1885. Although Crescimbeni,[2] Tiraboschi,[3] and Zeno[4] doubted the authenticity of the sonnet, scholars like Quadrio and, with some hesitation, Foscolo accepted it.[5][6] Claudio Morici [it] and later literary critics concluded that the sonnet is the work of a 16th-century writer, and that Giustina Levi-Perotti never existed.[1][7]

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainJacobs, Joseph; Cassuto, Umberto (1904). "Levi-Perotti, Giustina". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 37.

  1. ^ a b Sermoneta, Joseph Baruch (2007). "Levi-Perotti, Giustina". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.
  2. ^ Crescimbeni, Giovanni Mario (1730). Dell' Istoria della Volgar Poesia. Venice. pp. iii. 164 et seq.
  3. ^ Tiraboschi, Girolamo. Storia della letteratura italiana. Florence.
  4. ^ Zeno, Apostolo. Dissertazioni Vossiane. Venice. p. i. 257b.
  5. ^ Quadrio, Francesco Saverio. Della Storia e della Ragione d'Ogni Poesia. Milan. pp. i.–ii. 187–188, 194–195.
  6. ^ Foscolo, Ugo (1859). Opere Edite e Inedite, x. 409. Florence.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ^ Morici, Claudio (August 1899). "Giustina Levi-Perotti e le Petrarchiste Marchigiane". La Rassegna Nazionale (in Italian). Firenze: 662–695.