Piero Vettori professore presso lo Studium Florentinum: sei prolusioni inedite

Piero Vettori taught in Florence for over forty years, but until now only nine prolusions published by his nephew after Vettori’s death and some remarks in his correspondence offered evidence on his teaching activity. A miscellaneous manuscript (Munchen, Staatsbibliothek, Clm 750) preserves six previously unknown inaugural lectures, handwritten by Vettori himself. These speeches shed light on matters of chronology and on Vettori’s first fifteen years as lecturer in the Studium Florentinum and they also provide new insights on some volumes of his library. The text of the prolusions is published here for the first time.