Lodrisio Crivelli of Milan and Aeneas Silvius, 1457-1464

Abstract

The primary object of this article is to give the text of six poems by Lodrisio Crivelli (Leodrisius Cribellus), only one of which, no. I, appears to have been printed before and that from a defective manuscript. Secondary objects are to determine what light the texts of the six poems throw on the life of Crivelli from January 1457 to February 1464 and to bring out, principally in notes, any evidence which may tend to add detail to our knowledge of the period. Of these six poems only the first appears in the list of Crivelli's writings given by Dr. Giulio C. Zimolo in the account of Crivelli's life and works with which he prefaces his edition of one of them, De expeditione Pii papae II adversus Turcos.