Overview
Biblioteca Civica A. Hortis
Trieste
Italy
RVF 1-103
Description
317x237 mm; II + 136 + III fols.
parchment; humanistic script; each poem (or stanza of canzone) is followed by commentary distributed across the page beneath it, and annotations irregularly distributed on the sides; decorated initials.
Comincia il primo libro di sonetti e canzoni morali del generosissimo e facundissimo poeta messer Francesco Petrarca col expositione di messer Francesco Philelfo poeta laureato et oratore prestantissimo
fol. 1r: title (‘Comincia il primo libro di sonetti e canzoni morali del generosissimo e facundissimo poeta messer Francesco Petrarca col expositione di messer Francesco Philelfo poeta laureato et oratore prestantissimo’), followed by RVF 1.1-13;
fols. 1v-136: RVF 1.14-103 with annotations and Filelfo’s commentary (<inc of commentary> Quantunque il presente sonetto fusse da messer Francesco petrarca in questa leggiadra e suavissima opra in luogo di prefatione collocato no[n] fu pero el primo che lui fesse; <exp of commentary> la qual cosa facendo dice che etiandio di po la morte in migliaia danni hara di tale operatione grandissimo honore e fama);
fol. 136r: colophon: laus deo;
fol. 136v: note of the copyist (‘Andreas de gluxiano Scripsit. Andreas de gluxiano Scripsit’ [sic]) and a motto (‘Appetitus rationi pareat. Appetitus rationi pareat’ [sic]).
Material Copy
Biblioteca Civica A. Hortis
Trieste
Italy
Marginal annotations by the same hand point out those passages of Petrarch’s poems that Filelfo identified as translations from Latin and Greek authors; some other annotations by a later sixteenth-century hand refer to either the names or the mythological episodes mentioned by Petrarch. At fols. 37v, 38v, 40r, 40v, and 135v, some annotations in Greek by a seventeenth- or eighteenth-century hand mention the names of two (possible) possessors of the ms, and offer moral sententiae (fol. 40r-40v).
Decorated initials in gold for every RVF poem and the beginning of each section of Filelfo’s commentary.
Zamponi 1984, 107-09; Iter, II, 199a; Iter, VI, 235a
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Bessi 1987; Marcelli 2015