[Anonymous commentary on RVF 71]

363x247 mm. (198x130mm.); II + 159 + II fols.

paper; sixteenth and seventeenth-century cursive hand by various hands; small sections or single lines of Petrarch’s poems included in the prose text of the commentary.

<inc> Ma spero ch[e] sia itesa [sic] quel ma aduersatiuo non si puo riferire a quello ch[e]gli ha detto

fols. 120r-124v: anonymous commentary on RVF 71 (<inc> Ma spero ch[e] sia itesa [sic] quel ma aduersatiuo non si puo riferire a quello ch[e]gli ha detto che l’ingegno paue[n]ta all’alta impresa; <exp> ‘Malitia’ e non ‘militia’, p[er]ch[e] militia p[er] piu autorita significa malattia ‘Uoi ch’ascoltate’ Uoi cui fortuna);
 
fol. 124v: at the bottom of the fol. there is a note, likely by the same hand, on Latin prosody;
 
Other contents:
 
fols. 1-119v, 125r-159v: numerous Latin and Italian works, mostly poetical and satirical. The ms. includes a comedy by anonymous author (‘Inganno nella Verità ouero l’Equiuoco COMEDIA Anno. D[omi]ni MDCKVIII’: fols. 1r-99r); four capitoli berneschi (‘Contro la Barba à m[esse]r Benedetto Manzuoli’; ‘In lode della Torta à m[esse]r Roberto fontana’; ‘In lode del Uino alli Sig.ri Giudici del Reame della faua’; ‘Risposta contro il Vino, à m[esse]r Hercola assertore della faua’: fols. 100r-106v); Bernardo Segni’s vernacular translation of an Horatian ode (‘ode d’Horatio da B[ern]ardo Segni tradotta Diffugere niues’: fols. 107r-108v); Annibal Caro’s canzone (‘Tacer uorrei, ma trarmi a forza senso’: fol. 109r-111r); a Latin prose work (‘Secretu[m] mirabile de 4 uirgis uel baculis oliueis ad Inueniendu[m] o[mn]e thesauru[m] absconditu[m]: fols. 128v-133v); Niccolò Corelli’s tragicomedy (‘LE CELESTI NOZZE’: fols. 138r-159v).