From Cristoforo Landino’s Disputationes camaldulenses (1480?) to Francesco Berlinghieri’s Geographia (1481–1482)

In these years, Niccolò di Lorenzo was also responsible for printing Cristoforo Landino’s Disputationum camaldulensium libri IV. After having studied Marsilio Ficino’s masterwork, the Theologia Platonica, in early 1474, the humanist had composed this Latin dialogue in four books, in which he discussed the concepts of the active and passive life, its final goals and the allegorical interpretation of the first six books of Virgil’s Aeneis.¹ In both its original manuscript form and its undated printed editio princeps the text was dedicated to the Duke of Urbino, Federico da Montefeltro, who died in September 1482. Around fifty copies or fragments