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[Barzizza’s commentary on RVF 1]

Overview

Current Location

Bibliothèque nationale de France
Paris
France

Shelfmark
NAL 1819
Creator
Date
fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF 1

Description

Physical Description: Format

295x210 mm; I + 192 fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; humanistic script (for fols. 1r-2v) and semi-gothic hand (fols. 3r-192r); lines of Petrarch’s poem set on left and followed by commentary distributed across the page beneath them.

Title Page

<inc> Incomincia lexpositione de Alchuni soneti dimis[er] f[r]ancisco petrarcha facta da mis[er] Guiniforto di Barçiçii ad sposicione de lo illustrissimo et excelentissimo sig[n]ore duca di m[i]l[an]o

Internal Description

fol. Ir: bibliographical note by a twentieth-century hand;
 
fol. Iv: blank;
 
fol. 1r: Barzizza’s prologue to his commentary (‘Incomincia lexpositione de Alchuni soneti dimis[er] f[r]ancisco petrarcha facta da mis[er] Guiniforto di Barçiçii ad sposicione de lo illustrissimo et excelentissimo sig[n]ore duca di m[i]l[an]o’, <inc> [L]a Magnitudine di mia deuocione u[er]so la serenitat [sic] u[est]ra illustrissimo p[ri]ncipe et excelle[n]tissimo Signore; <exp> allop[era] ue[n]go illustrissimo p[ri]ncipe income[n]ciando dal prohemial sonetto);
 
fols. 1r-2v: Barzizza’s commentay to RVF 1 (<inc> [V]oi chascoltate et c[etera]. Fra[n]cisco pet[r]acha poeta clarissimo el quale nel t[em]po disua gioue[n]tute e[ss]endo inamorato duna damisella da luj nominata laurea; <exp [ex abrupto]> cioe de cossa che no[n] era da dole[r] et no[n] hauerla), followed by RVF 1.9-11;
 
fol. 3r-4v: blank;

 

 
Other contents:
 
fols. 5r-192r: Seneca’s tragedies in Latin (<inc> Sublime classe[—] hinc qua repent[—]; <exp> fortius ipso genitore tuo | fulmina mittes [sic]);
 
fol. 192v: blank.

Material Copy

Bibliography

Iter, III, 293a; Pellegrin 1966, 183-84 (= II, 361-62)
 
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Marcozzi 2004b