Un nuovo autografo di Vincenzo Monti: la lettera inedita del 27 gennaio 1807 ad Antonio Raineri Biscia (e tre lettere di questi all’Alfonsinese)

This article publishes for the first time a previously unidentified letter written and signed by Vincenzo Monti, housed at the Provincia Minoritica di Cristo Re dei Frati Minori dell’Emilia Romagna Archive in Bologna. The letter is dated 27 January 1807 and is addressed to Antonio Raineri Biscia, a young multilingual orientalist scholar from Forlì, in reply to a letter which he had sent to Monti on 8 January from Florence. The letter reveals that even before coming into contact with Amedeo Peyron, Monti showed a certain degree of interest in Eastern studies. The article contextualises the letter, providing an analysis of the document together with key biographical and bibliographical details concerning the recipient. The article also publishes three letters that Raineri Biscia wrote to Monti, all of which are housed in the Campori autograph collection at the Biblioteca Universitaria Estense in Modena; these letters are cited (but not published) in Luca Frassineti’s Supplemento all’epistolario di Monti.