Overview
Biblioteca Universitaria
Pisa
Italy
Triumphi + Fame Ia
Description
295x220 mm, I + 63 + I fols.
paper; cursive humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems set in a central block with commentary distributed on all four sides.
<inc> Quel ej demophonte. Demophonte fo figliolo del Re di tracia elquale andando p[er] lo mondose in[n]amoro defile (fol. 24r)
fols. 24r-57v: Triumphi (order: Amoris I.127-160, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia.1-6, 28-45, 106-163, Amoris II.1-150, Fame I.115-130, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis) with anonymous commentary on Amoris I.127-Mortis II.24 (<inc> Quel ej demophonte. Demophonte fo figliolo del Re di tracia elquale andando p[er] lo mondose in[n]amoro defile regia di rodopeia et puoj che hebbe hauta insuo dominio separtio di [sic] p[ro]metendolj de reto[r]nare p[er] essa; <exp of commentary> co[n]lley laq[uale] era ussita et uolata come d[⎯] dalilamenti et legamj delcorpo daquella unica uita laq[u]a[le] e sola dachiam[⎯] uita cio [††] [fol. 40v]);
fol. 57v: colophon: Deo finis gratias; followed by Latin paragraph on the Triumphi (<inc> D[omini] F[rancisci] P[etrarce] hunc triunfor[um] librus composuit i[n] laudem Laure dilecte sue; <exp> Quella legiadra et gloriosa donna et ultimo describit triunfum t[em]p[o]ris o[mn]ia uincentum q[uo]s o[mn]ia subiacent[em] ey Jbi. [†] [—] alb[—]oris operis);
Other contents:
fols. 1r-22v: [Mino d’Arezzo]’s poetic writing on Dante’s Commedia (‘Hec est tabula capitolor[um] inferny sup[er] p[re]sent[iu]s come[—]’);
fol. 23r-23v: anonymous astronomical observations (<inc> Saturne nasciente; <exp> capricorno 10 casa Tenota aueraie [sic] migliore uentura in uecheza ch[e] egoue[n]tu [sic]);
fol. 58r-58v. Antonio da Ferrara’s canzone ‘Jo ho gia lecto elpianto deitroyanj’;
fols. 59r-62v: excerpts from Dante’s Commedia (Paradiso VIII.7-148, Inferno VIII.126-130, Inferno IX, X.1-48);
fol. 62bisr: scattered notes by a librarian on the content of the ms.;
fol. 62bisv: blank
Material Copy
Biblioteca Universitaria
Pisa
Italy
The commentator investigates in particular numerous historical and mythological references relevant to the Triumphi. The anonymous author provides rich biographical sketches of the historical and mythological figures referred to by Petrarch. Furthermore, the commentary elucidates some passages in the plot of the Triumphi, focusing in particular on the relationship between Petrarch and Laura.
At the bottom of fols. 41v-42r, 44v-46v the text of the Triumphi is accompanied by a few lines of prose, partly erased by pen, which contain supplications to God composed by a later (presumably sixteenth-century) hand.
Entry compiled on the basis of microfilm CNSM.POS 32485 of the Centro Nazionale per lo Studio del Manoscritto (Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele II).