The Florentine poet Antonio Malatesti (1610-1672) earned a brief
but significant mention in the earliest history of Italian
literature for his contributions to the renewal of the sonnet form
in two genres, enigmatography and dithyrambic poetry. In more
recent times, his name has cropped up most frequently because of a
sequence of fifty bawdy sonnets entitled La Tina, equivoci
rusticali, which Malatesti dedicated and presented to the young
John Milton on the occasion of his visit to Florence in 1638. The
dedication manuscript disappeared soon after Milton's death and
remained practically unknown until 1757, when it was found on a
bookstall in London and copied as a curiosity. Then it disappeared
again, and some scholars even suggested that it had never existed.
The present critical edition is based on the rediscovered autograph
manuscript dedicated to Milton. The sonnets are furnished with
linguistic footnotes and prefaced by a note on the author from a
previously unknown copy by Giuseppe Baretti (1719-1789). A
comprehensive introduction sheds light on the history of the
manuscript, using new archival research, and it contributes to a
wider understanding of Malatesti's minor but exemplary position in
the history of seventeenth-century Italian literature. Davide
Messina is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of
Edinburgh.
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