Overview
Biblioteca dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana
Rome
Italy
Triumphi (except Fame, Temporis, Eternitatis) + Mortis Ia, Fame Ia
Description
232x169 mm; I + II1 + 162 fols.
paper; cursive humanistic script; single lines or small sections of Petrarch’s poems set on left, with commentary distributed across the page beneath them; decorated initials.
<inc> Incomincia ellibro chiamato Triomphi damore fatto et composto perlo excellentissimo, et Sommo poeta
fol. II1r: title of the ms. penned by a later hand with indication of previous shelfmark (‘Cod. 1082. Trionfi di Francesco Petrarca col Commento mss. l’anno 1473 Mss. di carte 158’);
fol. II1v: blank;
fol. 1r: introductory paragraph of [Pseudo-Filelfo’s] commentary (<inc> Incomincia ellibro chiamato Triomphi damore fatto et composto perlo excellentissimo, et Sommo poeta Messere franiciescho [sic] petrarcha dafirençe; <exp> huomini come dame hanno triumphato ponendo inalchuno diquelli laloro felicita);
fols. 1r-3r: [Pseudo-Filelfo’s] prologue to his commentary (<inc> Lo primo triumpho ouero felicita fu inhauere possessione ouero contentamento nello amore della sua innamorata; <exp> et morte esso yesu cristo figliuolo didio padre delquale suo uidi[††] nel Sexto triompho sifara mentione);
fols. 3r-157v: Triumphus Amoris I, Amoris III.1-109, Amoris IV.10-102, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia.1-2, Mortis I.19-120, Mortis II, Fame Ia.1-60 with [Ps-Filelfo’s] commentary (<inc of commentary – after Triumphus Amoris I.1-2> Alprimo triompho dello amore cioe desso cupido dice locommentatore ouero glosatore sia in cominciando sopra del testo dello autore; <exp of commentary> Et questi sono quogli [sic] chedire loauctore cheessendo diuile generatione p[er]loro uirtute nellarme furono fatti altj et gentilj et qui fa fine);
fol. 157v: Latin epigram (<inc> Quae condam totum lectore quesita per orbem; <exp> Haec nam dadalicus posuit portilia parma) followed by the indication of the date and of the publisher, Andrea Portilia, of the 1473 print of Pseudo-Filelfo’s commentary of the Triumphi (‘Andreas patria gloria magnia [sic] sua \ prodie nonas Martij MccccLxxiij’);
fols. 158r-162v: blank.
Material Copy
Biblioteca dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana
Rome
Italy
This is a codex descriptus of the edition of Pseudo-Filelfo’s commentary printed by Andrea Portilia in Parma in 1473.
Fol. 1r has a white vine-stem decorated border with initial of prologue in gold and a coat of arms of the Strozzi family at the bottom of the fol.; initials in gold for Triumphus Amoris III (fol. 35r), Amoris IV (fol. 53v), Mortis I (fol. 75r), Fame Ia (fol. 124r).
Entry compiled on the basis of a microfilm.
InvCors, I, 136; Iter, II, 111b; Narducci 1874, 31-32
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Bianca 1990, 223; Rizzardi 2004, XIII