Tito Vespasiano Strozzi (Ferrara, 1424 – ca. 1505) was an Italian Renaissance poet at the Este court of Ferrara, who figures as an interlocutor in Angelo Decembrio's De politia litteraria ("On literary polish").
He is more remembered for his humanistic compositions in Latin and some sonnets in Italian. He is said to have spent a lifetime polishing the amorous verses written in the first flush of his youth.[3] His literary style was formed at Verona under the guidance of Guarino.
Among his works are the six books of the Eroticon, a series of elegies in refined Latin verse fusing Latin classical training with the spirit of Petrarch.[4] A fine illuminated manuscript of them, with gold initials and illuminated margins, was purchased by the humanist Celio Calcagnini from the extensive former library of the Aragonese kings of Naples, dispersed by Isabella del Balzo, the deposed queen.[5]
His heroic Borsiade celebrating his patron Borso d'Este is lost, save a few fragments.[6] There are also epigrams, and sermons. His collected opere were published by Aldus Manutius in 1513, together with works of his son Ercole Strozzi (1471-1508), under the title Strozii poëtae pater et filius.[7]
↑ His sister Lucia was the mother of the humanist courtier-poet Matteo Maria Boiardo. His cousin Tito di Leonardo Strozzi's wife Alessandra Benucci was Ariosto's mistress or secret wife.
↑ Noted in a review by Carl Brandon Strehlke, "The Cini and Chigi-Saracini Collections. Venice and Siena" The Burlington Magazine132 No. 1042 (January 1990:60-61).
↑ W. Leonard Grant, "The Life of Naldo Naldi" Studies in Philology60.4 (October 1963:606-617) p. 609.
↑ Edited by Anita della Guardia, 1916. The developing cultural context under the influence of Guarino is explored in Italo Pantani, La fonte di ogni eloquenzia: Il canzoniere petrarchesco nella cultura poetica del Quattrocento ferrarese (Rome: Bulzoni) 2002.
↑ Santiago López-Ríos, "A New Inventory of the Royal Aragonese Library of Naples" Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 65 (2002:201-243) pp 210f, 230f. The codex is now in the Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea, Ferrara (MS Cl. I.368).
↑ Modern edition with commentary: Walther Ludwig, Die Borsias des Tito Strozzi (Munich: Wilhelm Fink) 1977
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