Un ritrovato codice aragonese di Silvestro Galeota per il duca Pierre II de Bourbon: cronaca di una scoperta

This essay illustrates the relevant discovery of a hitherto unknown Aragonese manuscript, commissioned by Ferrante of Aragon for the Duke Pierre II de Bourbon in 1481, found in Fermo at the Biblioteca del Seminario Arcivescovile ‘F. De Angelis’. The paper provides a detailed description of its material aspects, with particular regard to the sumptuous binding, an authentic masterpiece and a unicum in the sphere of the surviving Aragonese bindings. It reconstructs the historical and cultural context of reference for its production, and analyses its contents, which transmit a hitherto unknown consilium de podagra by the royal archiater Silvestro Galeota, a prestigious figure at Ferrante’s court, but of whom no literary evidence has been known so far.