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[Triumphi with Pseudo-Filelfo’s commentary]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City

Shelfmark
Borg. Lat. 385
Date
fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

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

Description

Physical Description: Format

218x143 mm; II +140 + II fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; cursive 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 ellibro chiamato triompho damore facto et composto dallo excellentissimo poeta Messere francescho petrarca dafirençe

Internal Description

fol. 1r: introductory paragraph of Pseudo-Filelfo’s commentary (<inc> Incomincia ellibro chiamato triompho damore facto et composto dallo excellentissimo poeta Messere francescho petrarca dafirençe; <exp> maschi et femine anno triomphato ponendo loro felicita in alcuno diquelli ciaschuno sotto mettendosi algiogo damore et transformandosi inquella cosa piu amo mentre uisse);
 
fol. 1r-1v: Pseudo-Filelfo’s prologue to his commentary (<inc> [L]o primo triomfo ouero felicita fu inauere possessione ouero contentamento inamore disua donna innamorata; <exp> sara poi ariuederla incielo glorificata quasi uoglia dire lingua humana non è sufficiente adirlo);
 
fols. 1v-140r: Triumphus Amoris I, III.1-108, IV.13-101, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia+I.19-120, Mortis II, Fame Ia.1-59 with Pseudo-Filelfo’s commentary (<inc of commentary> Circa alcapitolo diquesto principio è da notare lauctore secondo schriue inuno suo sonetto ilqual comincia; <exp of commentary> io uidi parechi et questi furono Rutilio Volumio Gracho et philo de quali sopra edichiarato fatti peruirtu darme alti et gentilj cioe costoro uidio);
 
fol. 140v: blank.

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City

Shelfmark
Borg. Lat. 385
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Occasional marginal annotations by the same hand provide a few missing lines.

Bibliography

Vattasso 1909, 127
 
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Allenspach 1986, 275 and 278; Allenspach 1993, 281-94; Guerrini Ferri 1986, 26; Guerrini Ferri 2006, 181