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[RVF 1-103 with Filelfo’s commentary and anonymous annotations]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Civica A. Hortis
Trieste
Italy

Shelfmark
I 39
Date
fifteenth century (c.1460-1475)
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF 1-103

Description

Physical Description: Format

317x237 mm; II + 136 + III fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

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.

Visual Elements
Title Page

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

Internal Description

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

Location

Biblioteca Civica A. Hortis
Trieste
Italy

Shelfmark
I 39
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

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.

Bibliography

Zamponi 1984, 107-09; Iter, II, 199a; Iter, VI, 235a
 
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Bessi 1987; Marcelli 2015