ABSTRACT
The manuscript embodies the move of many young patricians away from their families' former involvement in commerce and in governance and toward written endeavors including the compiling of historical records and literary texts. Magno's awareness of these deep connections may have motivated his inclusion of the honorific 'missier' with Beolco's name in his copy of the Pastoral, one of only two instances in which that respectful title is included with the playwright's name in manuscripts. Canonician 36's strict division by genre differs from the careful choices and interleaving of texts that shape Magno's other literary manuscripts into chapbooks. Canonician 36 is also free from the contemporary exile from the attention of serious people of all poetry beyond the bounds of Petrarchism. Magno's awareness of these deep connections may have motivated his inclusion of the honorific 'missier' with Beolco's name in his copy of the Pastoral, one of only two instances in which that respectful title is included.
