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[Anonymous academic lecture on RVF 81]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Civica A. Hortis
Trieste
Italy

Shelfmark
I 59
Date
1653
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF 81

Academy

Accademia della Crusca, Florence
Italy

Description

Physical Description: Format

286x204 mm; 16 fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; sixteenth-century script; Petrarch’s poem with one verse per line and prose text, written in the right half of the fols.

Title Page

Lezione sopra il sonetto del Petrarca Io son si stanco sotto ’l fascio antico

Internal Description

fol. 1r: note by the same hand (‘Adi 26 Marzo 1653 nell’Accademia della Crusca’), followed by RVF 81;
 
fols. 1v-15v: academic lecture on RVF 81 (<inc> Materia ci si propone in q[ues]to sonetto del n[ost]ro Petrarca, ch[e] p[er]essere molto conforme a q[ues]ti te[m]ppi quadragesimali, e fare occorsami non a caso p[er] hauermi sopramodo illuminato lintelletto \ al conoscim[en]to \ alla cognitione della \ p[er]fettione dell’huomo e di sua \ uera felicità ho pensato far soggetto del mio discorso; <exp> piglierà il uolo da terra al Cielo mediante la divina gra[zi]a \ della quale noi ancora p[er] diuina bonta arricchiti \ la quale Dio ci conceda accio ch[e] conosciuta la nobiltà della no[str]a natura non altroue declinando uolghiamo [sic] ipassi, et aquello ch[e] può i desiderij no[str]i affogare e quietare abertamente [sic]);
 
fol. 16r-16v: blank.

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Civica A. Hortis
Trieste
Italy

Shelfmark
I 59
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

This lecture focuses at first on the human nature and the impossibility for humankind to understand it in full and express its perfection. It then deals with the nature of the soul, happiness, and (mortal and eternal) beauty. Finally, it highlights the philosophical importance of Petrarch’s reference to Laura’s love as a means to reach God.
 
Reference is made to some RVF poems (including RVF 191, 73, 364) and Aristotle.
 
In the left hand side of each fol., which is generally left blank, the copyist sometimes adds some words or sentences to the lecture.

Bibliography

Zamponi 1984, 151