La Biblioteca di un 'principe umanista' Federico da Montefeltro e i suoi manoscritti [di M.G. Critelli]

LA PRODUZIONE URBINATE

Sotto la categoria ‘scriptorium di Urbino’ si deve indicare anche una serie di manoscritti (Urb. lat. 419, 420, 651, 1221) – collegata alla controversa figura di Federico Veterani –, che esibisce un originale pastiche di apporti figurativi di diversa sorgente – l’antiporta à la fiorentina, il cappio intrecciato dai colori intensi di derivazione ferrarese, i fregi a bianchi girari, anch’essi nei modi nord-italiani o di gusto romano, abitati da putti e animali. È quindi necessaria, in tal senso, un’avvertenza metodologica: nelle schede, l’indicazione topografica ‘Urbino’, rispetto al centro di produzione dei codici studiati, andrà di volta in volta letta proprio in rapporto alla varietà sin qui illustrata.

Esemplari come l’Urb. lat. 337, l’Urb. lat. 349, l’Urb. lat. 427, pur essendo visivamente diversi tra loro, mostrano una serie di caratteristiche figurative e decorative riconducibili al linguaggio librario dell’Italia settentrionale, acquisite e ricomposte tuttavia in un parlare autonomo, spesso dagli esiti molto raffinati – si vedano le vette raggiunte dall’esigua produzione nota di Giovanni Corenti, Urb. lat. 324 e 326.

Urb. lat. 337, f. 1r - Urb. lat. 349, f. 2r: esempi di nodi ferraresi

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