Note *148 — Chapter XLIX

I record the more important. In 1575 he wrote a poem on Artiglieria, and in 1579 another on the Invenzione del bossolo da navigare; this was published by Canevazzi (Livorno, Giusti, 1901). Cf. concerning it, Provasi in Le Marche (1902), and Zaccagnini in Rass. Crit. d. Lett. Ital., vol. VII., p. 166. His masterpiece, Nautica, written between 1580-85, is a didactic poem in four books imitating the Georgics. Concerning it see Zaccagnini, Le fonti della Nautica in Giornale St. d. Lett. Ital., vol. XL., p. 366, and Provasi, Contributo allo studio della Nautica di B.B. (Fano, 1903). The Egloghe Miste were dedicated to Ranuccio Farnese in 1590, and consist of nineteen poems in various metres in a Theocritan vein. Cf. Ruberto, Le Egloghe edite e inedite di B.B. in Propugnatore (1882), and for Epigrammi, Ruberto, op. cit. An. cit. His youthful erotic poems were published under the title Lauro (Pavia, 1600), and, not to speak of other volumes, the Sonetti Romani appeared in Versi e Prose (Venice, Franceschi, 1590). His works in prose were very numerous. I note here La Descrizione del Palazzo Ducale d'Urbino (circa 1587), and the Vite of Federigo and Guidobaldo I. of Urbino, the first published in Rome in 1820 and a bad edition of the second in Milan, 1821. He wrote also a Cronaca (Urbino, 1707), a life of Federigo Comandino, the Encomio della Patria, cf. Zaccagnini, Uno scritto inedito di B.B. in Le Marche (Fano), vol. I., p. 4; and the Lettere Familiari, cf. Polidori, Lettere di Baldi (Firenze, 1854), Ronchini, Lettere di B. (Parma, 1873) and Saviotti, Lettere di B. (Pesaro, 1887).