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Rapicano [Rabicano; Ripicano; Rubicano], Cola [Niccola]
(b Amantea, Calabria; fl 1451; d Naples, 1488). Italian illuminator. He is cited in the records of the Aragonese treasury as the official illuminator to the court of Aragon in Naples from 1451 to 1488. From 1455 he received a regular stipend, but the books illuminated by him are not specifically identified in the documents until 1471, although there are general references to Graduals, Missals etc, most of which are untraced. Numerous manuscripts have been attributed to Rapicano on the basis of style. His earliest documented works include a copy of Aesop’s Fables (30 Oct 1473; Berlin, Dt. Staatsbib., MS. Hamilton 6), a copy of Strabo’s Geography (1473–4; Rome, Vatican, Bib. Apostolica, MS. Ottob. 14448) and a copy of Andrea Contario’s Obiurgatio in Platonis calumniatorum (1471; Paris, Bib. N., MS. lat. 12947), in which Angiolillo Arcuccio ( fl 1464–92) also collaborated. Attributed works for the years c. 1474–81 include the statutes of the Ordine del Toson d’oro (Naples, Bib. N., MS. ii D 20) and the Letters of St Cyprian (Naples, Bib. N., MS. vi C 4); the latter closely resembles the documented Cancionero (1481; Rome, Bib. Casanatense, MS. 1098).
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