Note 153 — LORENZO DI PIERO DE’ MEDICI

I have followed the Ashburnham Codex, now in the Laurentian Library, published by Sigr. Gugliemo Volpi in the Atti della R. Academia della Crusca, 1907-1908. There the poem has only twenty octaves instead of fifty, and I think most people will agree that this is the real version and that the other mentioning quella trista Becca, evidently alluding to Luigi Pulci’s poem La Becca di Dicomano, written later in imitation of Lorenzo’s poem Nencia, has interpolations by an inferior hand. Sigr. Volpi has published the poem in a small pamphlet, Un Nuovo Testo della Nencia, da G. Volpi. Tipografia Gallileiana, Firenze, 1908.