Una traccia per la fama di Bramante

Through the publication and analysis of a Latin poem dedicated to Bramante, the article attempts to reconstruct the relations between its author, the Cremonese humanist Daniele Gae-tani (1460-1528) and the world of the figurative arts. What emerges is an unexpectedly rich network of personal bonds and interests: Gaetani's youthly passion for the collection of antiquities, the epitaph he composed for Boccaccio Boccaccino, relations with his uncle Eliseo, the patron of Altobello Melone, the eulogy he composed for a mysterious Jacobus Lapidarais, sculptor of the Duomo of Milan. The poem In Bramantem, forgotten about in one of the humanist's manuscripts, contains an interesting mention of the statue of Laocoon and, as proof of the architect's greatness, cites the scaldatorium: a room in Bramante's construction site for the Monastero di Sant'Ambrogio in Milan which sources refer to as having been frescoed by Bramantino.