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[Colocci’s annotations on RVF and Triumphi and Orlandi’s canzone on Triumphi]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City

Shelfmark
Vat. Lat. 4787
Date
sixteenth century
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia, Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

211x135 mm; II + 194 + II fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; two scripts: mercantesca for the texts and sixteenth-century cursive hand for the annotations; Petrarch’s poems set in a central block, with annotations distributed in single column on right and more rarely on left.

Title Page

‘F[RANCISCI] PETRARCE POETE FLORENTINI CLARISSIMI OPVS FELICITER INCIPIT’

Internal Description

fols. 1r-139v: RVF with Colocci’s annotations;
 
fol. 139v: colophon: finito Libro Reddam[us] grat[iam] ch[rist]o’;
 
fols. 142r-178r: Triumphi with Colocci’s annotations (‘F[RANCISCI] PETRARCE POETE CLARISSIMI TRIVMFORVM LIBER FELICITER INCIPIT’; order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia + Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis; Eternitatis);
 
fol. 178v: blank;
 
fols. 179r-181r: Alberto Orlandi’s canzone on Triumphi (‘Cantilena alberti orlandy \ Alberti orlandi \ in opera francisci petrarca’; <inc> Beato el prego to cortese et almo; <exp> per obbedire et non per far comento);
 
fol. 181r: colophon: finis;
 
Other contents:
 
fol. 140r: Antonio da Ferrara’s sonnet ‘Elgiouane che uuole trouare honore’;
 
fol. 140r-140v: two sonnets by anonymous author ‘De passa tempo nel mondo fallare’, ‘Quandol fanciullo da picholi si folleggia’;
 
fol. 141r-141v: blank;
 
fol. 181v: sonnet attributed to ‘Jo. S.’ (‘De mirate per dio quel sarco [sic] uiso’), ottava attributed to ‘N. E.’ (‘Falze lamore, et falzo chi glie crede’);
 
fol. 182r: sonnet by anonymous author on ‘A[ntonio] De f[errara]’ (‘Se ciel fosse pietoso di miei da[m]pni’), sonnet attributed to ‘Jo. S.’ (‘Se lito uersi \ che \ cantando chiama’);
 
fol. 182v: ottava attributed to ‘N. Co. E.’, which – (according to Vattasso 1909, 52) presumably corresponds to ‘N[icolai] Co[lotii] E[sinen.]’ – (‘Oimè quilli ochij da chi sto Lontano’), ottava by anonymous author (‘Vno homo fo che nacque nanti el padre’);
 
fol. 183r: sonnet by anonymous author (‘Questa orsa generosa ch[e] tanti anni’), sonnet attributed to ‘F. C.’ (‘Defortuna crudel ben hai tu facto’);
 
fols. 183v-188v: blank;
 
fol. 189r: sonnet by anonymous author (‘Mi mescontrai i[n] uia i[n] un babbione’);
 
fols. 189v-191v: blank;
 
fol. 192r-192v: brief Latin paragraphs on the members of the Colocci family;
 
fols. 193r-194v: four sonnets by anonymous author (the first, third, and fourth are caudate) (‘Cing[u]lo cinto egle como resona’, ‘Eprocregia Jniqua et maledecta’, ‘Nota lectore de que elmio cor se lagna’, ‘Non me ce cogli piu berta [sic] morita’).

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City

Shelfmark
Vat. Lat. 4787
Copy seen by
Lorenzo
Sacchini
Notes

Angelo Colocci’s marginal annotations on RVF mostly refer to the order of the poems (e.g. the note at fol. 52v regards the inclusion of the dispersa ‘Donna mi vene spesso nella mente’ in RVF; that at fol. 99v signals, after RVF 263, the partition of the first and the second part of the RVF). The annotations demonstrate that Colocci had access to ms. Vat. Lat. 3195 (see note at fol. 35v: ‘Hic debent sequi Sal princ[ipi]o rispo[n]de etc chi e fermato. ita [e]n[im] e[st] ordo scripto i[n] l[ibr]o digitis d[omino] fr[ancesco] p[etrarca] scripto que[m] uidi’, and Vattasso 1909, 50). His marginal annotations on the text of the Triumphi mostly deal with variant readings.
 
Orlandi’s canzone summarizes the content of the Triumphi. In the second stanza Orlandi states that he will illustrate the five subjects of Petrarch’s work (‘Vi contaro iso i cinq[ue] so subiecti’). The text of the canzone makes precise references to Petrarch’s work, with a particular focus on the mythological figures (such as Jupiter, Mars, Proserpine) mentioned in the Triumphi; some maniculae.

Bibliography

Vattasso 1909, 50-53
 
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Bernardi 2008a, 53, 61; Bernardi 2013, 82; Bologna 2008a, XII; Bologna 2008b, 17-18; Brea 2008, 248, 254-255; Guerrini Ferri 1986a, 173, 177; Guerrini Ferri 1986b, 25, 28