Due componimenti inediti di Checco di Meletto Rossi da Forlì

Francesco Rossi from Forlì (well known as Checco di Meletto), chancellor of Francesco Ordelaffi, is famous for the latin pastoral correspondence exchanged with Giovanni Boccaccio around 1347-1348. The rest of his writings remains almost unknown: currently unpublished are two poems in hexameters of pastoral genre and some letters dating back to a later phase of his life. The aim of the paper is to fill this gap by offering the first critical edition of both the poems, transmitted by three manuscripts written in an environment linked to the family Malatesta (maybe in the city of Rimini, where Checco spent the last years of his life): the first carmen ("Laurea si incinctos") is dedicated to poet Francesco Petrarca, who around 1353 had moved to Milan under the protection of Visconti family; the other ("Fons sedet"), perhaps a little later, deals with the theme of death and contains influences inherited from the Booccaccio’s pastoral poetry and from the Africa, the epic poem composed by Petrarca.