[Anonymous commentary on RVF 40-366 and Triumphi with Sicco’s life of Petrarch]

207x152 mm; XIII + 74 + XVI fols.

paper; cursive humanistic script; commentary split in sections (each devoted to a single RVF poem or capitolo of the Triumphi) divided by a blank line; close to the beginning of each section of commentary on RVF a running number designates the poem concerned; for the Triumphi reference is provided for the first line of the capitolo concerned; within each section of commentary quotations from Petrarch are underlined.

<inc> ch[e]l mondo e la fama andara i[n]fine a Roma

fols. 1r- 57r: commentary by anonymous author on RVF 40-366 (<inc> ch[e]l mondo e la fama andara i[n]fine a Roma: ma p[er] ch[e] ma[n]cha et [†] et e testuale | 41. Qua[n]do dal proprio sito si rimoue finge M[esser] f[rancesco] ogni fiata ch[e] la sua donna la quale e larbor ch[e] phebo amo gia i[n] corpo humano ch[e] fu damnes [sic] ch[e] qualunqu[e] non fiata ella se moue da uno loco ad unalt[r]o ch[e] no[n] fa se no[n] piouere e dice p[er]cirantione [sic]; <exp> 366. Vergine bella ch[e] di sol uestita. Cantio ad beatam Virgine[m] sup[ra] qua nullu[m] erat argumentum);
 
fol. 57r-57v: Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘Scriptum manu propria d[omi]ni francisci petrarce in quodam eius Virgilio uisum est’, <inc> Laura propriis uirtutib[us] illustris et meis longu[m] celebrata carminib[us]; <exp> i[n]spectatos exitus acrit[er] ac virilit[er] cogita[n]ti);
 
fol. 57v: colophon: finis;
 
fols. 57v-64r: commentary on Triumphus Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fama Ia, Fame I, Temporis, Eternitatis (<inc> Nel te[m]po ch[e] rinoua i mie suspiri. La sententia del auctore e de exaltare la laura i[n] questa op[er]a p[er] la castita e fa il p[ri]mo triu[m]pho del amore ch[e] vince ogni homo; <exp> et nel suo pianto sopra riso dogni alt[r]o fu beato et [†] confortasse cu[m] li donni [sic]. ch[e] nasce in gibenna gibenna e la ualle oue la naque);
 
fol. 64v: blank;
 
fols. 65r-73r: [Sicco’s] Latin life of Petrarch (<inc> franciscus petrarca flore[n]tinus fuit. Exul nanq[ue] pa[tr]ia natus est: cui[us] p[ate]r petrus petrarcon mater leta appellati su[n]t; <exp> id t[ame]n est suo i[n]ge[n]io ac dilige[n]tia assecutus: q[uo]d istis in studijs et sui et sup[er]ioris te[m]p[o]ris om[n]es ad multos annos quo uis dicendi genere superauit);
 
fol. 73r: colophon: finis;
 
fol. 73v: poem [Giovanni Boccaccio’s Carmina I.1] (‘D[omini] Francisci Petrarce carme[n] illustrissimu[m] ad flore[n]tinos q[ui] reuerti no[n] uult [sic] flore[n]tiam’, <inc> Quando erit obscuri larib[us] co[n]tentus amicle; <exp> tu[n]c tua propositu[m] co[n]uerte[n]t carmi[n]a nostru[m]);
 
fol. 74r: excerpt from Petrarch’s Epystole III.24 (‘Diuis D[ominus] franciscus petrarca laureatur in r[—] salutation italie’, <inc> Salue cara deo tellus sanctissima salue; <exp> Salue pulchra pare[n]s terrar[um] gloria salue);
 
fol. 74v: Pier Paolo Vergerio’s Latin poem in praise of Petrarch (‘Petri pauli Vergerij uersus de principalibus operibus d[o]m[ini] francisci petrarce’, <inc> Illustres celebrare uiros medicamina utra[m]q[ue]; <exp> ultima sacratis studiis dans opera uite), followed by two lines by a later hand (‘Ultima sa[—]tis studiis dans opera uicte | Morto bella parea nel suo bel uiso’);
 
fol. Ir-IIr: blank;
 
fol. IIv: a transcription of the text written at fol. 65r by a eighteenth-century hand;
 
fols. IIIr-XVIv: blank.