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(a) The author
There is in the British Museum a smaller collection of poems which Niccolò Antonio Carmignano published under his own name in 1516: Le Cose vulgare de Missere Colantonio Carmignano. . . nouamente impresse, completed by Georgio di Rusconi at Venice on 23 December 1516. Since the majority of these poems are to be found in the Operette of 'Il Suavio Parthenopeo' printed at Bari in 1535, it is, after all, the author himself who discloses his identity and explains his pseudonym. The only portion of the 1535 book which is not to be found in the earlier Venice edition is the
This discovery was in fact made forty years ago in an exhaustive article by Giovanni Rosalba in a periodical which for no good reason is not available in the British Isles.[2] I had an opportunity to consult it during a recent visit to Florence.
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