Fourteenth Century Umbria

  1. The Holy-Week plays of the Laudario Perugino
  2. Laus Sabbati Sancti: the Perugian play of the Harrowing of Hell (in English and Italian). This, the best known of the Perugian laude drammatiche, is found in three manuscripts:
  3. P: Perugia, Biblioteca August 995, ff. 47v–49r [mod. num.] with the rest of f. 49v–50v blank, copied for the Confraternity of Sant’Andrea of Perugia around the middle of the fourteenth century;
  4. V: Rome, Biblioteca Vallicelliana, A.22, ff. 94r–98v [mod. num], copied at the beginning of the fifteenth century, perhaps for the Confraternity of San Fiorenzo in Perugia, a palimpsest worn from use and marked with occasional drops of wax; and
  5. R: Assisi, Archivio Capitolare di San Rufino, ex Archivio di Santo Stefano, MS 36, ff. 97v–1004, transcribed by Luca Ercolani, a Priest in Assisti between 1380 and 1400.
  6. P contains only lines 1–168; V contains the texts edited here; and R contains no reference to his mother before he appears to the Women in the garden.
  7. Inventory
  8. Description of Passion, 1448

Sixteenth-century Umbria – and not theatre

Francesco Coppetta dei Beccuti (1509–1553)

The University of Sydney holds an undescribed sixteenth-century manuscript of a selection of sonnets by Francesco Coppetta dei Beccuti. A bibliographical note will be published in the near future (link to be added). For a complete list of first lines, cross-matched with the Chiòrboli, Combini and Crismani editions, click here