[RVF 58-358 with Patrizi’s commentary on RVF 58-357 and nine Triumphi with anonymous commentary – with index]

284x208 mm; I + 228 + I fols.

paper; cursive humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line, set on left in small block with commentary distributed across the page beneath each block.

<inc> mostrandoui un de agusto un […] | perche ala longa uia tempo ne m[…]

fols. 1r-161v: RVF 58.7-137.3, 140-336, 350, 355, 337-349 and 356-358 with Patrizi’s commentary (except to RVF 91, 137-138, 231, 351-354, and 358) (<inc> Non potendo coprir piu il secreto il poeta: sorton tale [—] discopre Papa Vrbano quinto hauendo sentito multo laudar laura dal poeta sulo per fama sen[n]e innamoro; <exp> Dice parereli milli an[n]i de seguir laura che como lo inizio ne la vita cossi lo conduca al celo: et have[n]no intellecto ch[e] no[n] puo esser[e] piu tempo ne da blanditie mundane ne da timor di morte pero che xr[ist]o sosteni morte per farere eterni et forti et da laltra parte esso sta sempre col core in laura [Patrizi’s last commentary is to RVF 357]); marginal annotations throughout the RVF fols. indicate the number of the poems (e.g., ‘Son^to c^oxviiii^o’ and ‘Canzon: XXVIIII^a’);
 
fol. 161v: a second hand wrote the index of the first lines of RVF poems beginning with ‘A’, each followed by the number of the fol. where the poem is copied (numbers corresponds to original numeration of the fols. of the ms., still readable and close to the modern one on the top right margin of each fol.);
 
fols. 162r-170v: index of the first lines of RVF poems from ‘C’ to ‘Z’ (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fols. 171r-171v: concluding part of an introduction to the commentary on Triumphus Amoris I (<inc> no[n] possea quiescere ne la nocte in alcuno modo dormir: Vnde accade che stanco per passioni et reuoltatosi multo per lo lecto vltimamente circa la aurora sendormi et uidde insognio tal visione cheli parea essere in vno verde et florito campo ; <exp> et cossi sequitan[n]o tucti li alt[r]i tempi delo an[n]o divisi in tre p[ar]te come e decto vnde la estate e diuisa in tre signi Cancer, Leo, Virgo: Lo autun[n]o in lebra, Scorpio et Sagictario Lo hiberno in Capricorno Aquario et pesce, undi dice inquisto modo);
 
fols. 171v-228v: nine Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III [labelled as ‘Capitulo secundo del trionpho de Amore’], Amoris IV [labelled as ‘Parte tercia del triumpho d’amore’], Amoris II [labelled as ‘Quarta parte del triumpho d’Amore’], Pudicitie [labelled as ‘Triumphus Pudicitie’], Mortis Ia [labelled as ‘In laude de la Pudicitia’, and presented at the beginning of the relative commentary as ‘capitulo ultimo del triumpho dela pudicitia’, fol. 215r], Mortis I [labelled as ‘Triumpho tercio de la Morte’], Mortis II [labelled as ‘Parte seconda del Triompho de la Morte’], Fame Ia [labelled as ‘Triumpho quarto de la Fama’]) with anonymous commentary (<inc> Nel tempo dela primavera in nela quale risuona li mej sospirj et nel quale tempo sospiro ricordandomj che quil tempo fu principio ad si longhi martirj; <exp> Questo e lo ordine: li ultimi accenti risonanti de parole delo ragiona .S. de Laura. risonauano ancor nel mio cor pieno de dolcecza amarissima. dolceza .S. perlo parlar de laura | amarissima p[er] la partita | del ragionar diro laquale).