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[Triumphi with Pseudo-Filelfo’s commentary]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Palatina
Parma
Italy

Shelfmark
Parm. 624
Date
fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

Triumphus Amoris I, III, IV, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

194x140 mm; I + 119 fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; humanistic script; section of each capitolo (in red ink) set on left and followed by commentary (in black ink) distributed across the page beneath it.

Title Page

<inc> Incomincia el libro chiamato trionphi damore facto et chomposto per lo excellentissimo et sum[m]o poeta Miser francesco Petrarcha da fiorença

Internal Description

fol. 1r: introductory paragraph of [Pseudo-Filelfo’s] commentary (<inc> Incomincia el libro chiamato trionphi damore facto et chomposto per lo excellentissimo et sum[m]o poeta Miser francesco Petrarcha da fiorença; <exp> homini como done han[n]o triu[m]phato ponendo in alchuni di quelli la lor felicita);
 
fols. 1r-2v: [Pseudo-Filelfo’s] prologue to his commentary (<inc> Lo preimio [sic] triompho ouero felicita fu in hauere posessione ouero co[n]tentame[n]to ne lo amore de la sua inamorata; <exp> iesu xr[ist]o figliolo de dio patre del quale suo iuditio inlo sexto triumpho se fara me[n]tione);
 
fols. 2v-111r: Triumphus Amoris I, III.1-108, IV.13-102, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I.19-120, Mortis II, Fame Ia.1-60 with [Pseudo-Filelfo’s] commentary (‘Incomincia el primo capitulo de lo Amore o ouere el primo Triu[m]pho felicemente’, <inc of commentary> E al primo triu[m]pho de lo amore cioe depso cupido dice lo com[m]entatore ouero glosatore sia income[n]zando sopra del testo de lauctore che dice cossi ciercha el p[ri]ncipio di questo primo capitulo; <exp of commentary> et questi soni quelli ch[e] dice lo auctore che essendo de ville generatio[n]e p[er] lor uirtute ne larme furono facti alti e gentille, et qui fa fine. Finis);
 
fols. 111v-119v: blank.

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Palatina
Parma
Italy

Shelfmark
Parm. 624
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Scattered marginal annotations by the same hand point out names mentioned in both poems and commentary.
 
Antonio Boselli misattributes this commentary, viewing it as a shortened version of Ilicino’s (see Boselli 1935, 254).

Bibliography

Boselli 1935, 254-55; CPR, 295
 
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Allenspach 1986; Allenspach 1993; Guerrini Ferri 2006