Dante and Tasso Library Fund

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Dante and Tasso Library Fund

Francis Campbell Macaulay built an extraordinary collection of early editions of Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Tasso, which he bequeathed to Penn in 1896.

He also established a fund to continue developing the Library collections on the works of Dante and Tasso.

Materials purchased through this fund include:

Annotationi brevissime, sovra le Rime di M.F.P. : lequali contengono molte cose à, proposito di ragion ciuile, sendo stato la di lui prima professione, à beneficio de li studiosi, hora date in luce, con la traduttione della Canzona...
Flavia, tragoedia Bernardini Stephonii e Societate Iesv. Diu antea, viuente autore, flagitata : posthuma nunc tandem prodit.
Pyladae genealogia.
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