Abstract

The article examines some letters sent by Bernardo Morando to Angelico Aprosio, today kept by the Biblioteca Universitaria in Genoa. In those letters, written between 1646 and 1650, we can find important information about the origins of Morando's famous novel "La Rosalinda" (1650). In these documents we recognize the author's difficulties in writing the catalogue of the illustrious Ligurian men, an excerpt of the seventh book that Morando pondered until the last stage of printing. For that catalogue Angelico Aprosio provided an invaluable assistance. In those pages of his great novel Morando praised Genoese nobility and Ligurian men of letters: so every inclusion and every exclusion had to be considered very carefully.