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[RVF 1-103 with Filelfo’s commentary]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Strozzi 176
Date
fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF 1-103

Description

Physical Description: Format

330x225 mm; V + 254 + II fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; humanistic script; each poem (or stanza of canzone) is followed by commentary distributed across the page beneath it; one architectural frame and decorated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> COMINCIA ILPRIMO LIBRO DE SONETTI ET CANZON MORALI DI MESSER FRANCESCO PETRA[R]CA COLLA EXPOSITIONE DI MESSER FRANCESCO PHILELFO. SONETTI PRIMO

Internal Description

fol. Ir-Iv: blank;
 
fol. IIr-IIv: ms. shelfmarks by later hands;
 
fol. IIIr-IIIv: blank;
 
fol. IVr: a note on the contents of the ms. and a note of possession (‘Del Sen[ato]re Carlo di Tommaso Strozzi 1670) by a seventeenth-century hand;
 
fols. IVv-Vv: blank;
 
fols. 1r-254r: RVF 1-103 with Filelfo’s commentary (‘Comincia ilprimo libro de sonetti et canzon morali di messer Francesco Petra[r]ca colla expositione di messer Francesco Philelfo. sonetti primo’, <inc of commentary> Quantunque il presente sonetto fusse da messer francesco petrarca in questa leggiadra & suauissima opra in luog\h\o di prefatione collocato: non fu pero il primo che lui facesse; <exp of commentary> La qual risposta ta[n]to al petrarca dispiacque che in uituperio di lei fece subito il presente sonetto Ilquale perche e per se medesimo chiaro non mi distendero piu oltre in exporlo);
 
fol. 254v: blank.

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Strozzi 176
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Occasional marginal annotations by the same hand or another sixteenth-century hand point out the names mentioned or the rhetorical figures used in the poems.
 
The metrical form of each RVF poem and a running number are written in the same hand next to the first line of every poem (e.g., ‘Sonetto primo’ or ‘canzone terza).
 
Decorated initial in gold for RVF 1 (fol. 1r); at fol. 1r is an architectural frame with a coat of arms within a wreath at the bottom of the fol.

Bibliography

Bessi 2004, 49-50; BML Mostra, 55; BML Mostra autografi, 9; CPR, 30
 
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Benedetti 2005, 57; Bessi 1987, 257-259, 264, and 266; Marcelli 2015; Zaggia 1995, 34 (n. 185)