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[Triumphus Fame Ia with Bracciolini’s commentary]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Med. Pal. 42
Date
fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

Triumphus Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

190x130 mm; II + 72 fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; humanistic script; small sections of Petrarch’s poem set on left with commentary distributed across the page beneath each of them, and annotations irregularly distributed on the sides.

Title Page

<inc> Jachopo dim[esser] poggio a lorenzo dipiero dichosimo demedici sopra elpohema triumpho della fama dim[esser] francescho petrarcha. prohemio

Internal Description

fol. Ir: shelfmark by a later hand;
 
fol. Iv: blank;
 
fol. IIr: title by a later hand (‘Trionfo della fama di Jacopo di M[esser] Poggio Al mag[nifico] Lorenzo de Medici el sauio’), followed by an ancient shelfmark;
 
fol. IIv: blank;
 
fols. 1r-2r: Bracciolini’s dedicatory letter to Lorenzo de’ Medici (‘Jachopo dim[esser] poggio a lorenzo dipiero dichosimo demedici sopra elpohema triumpho della fama dim[esser] francescho petrarcha. prohemio’, <inc> Comune e oppinione Mag[nifi]co lorenzo gluomini antichi esser prudentj e sauij perla lungha experienzia delle chose uedute dalloro; <exp> mimettero a nauigare in alto mare sperando cho[n] prospera fortuna cho[n]durmi inporto haue[n]do te p[er] chapitano eguernatore);
 
fol. 2v: Triumphus Fame Ia.1-24 (‘Primo cap[itol]o deltriumpho della fama dim[esser] francescho petrarcha’);
 
fols. 3r-71r: Triumphus Fame Ia.25-163 with Bracciolini’s commentary (<inc> Elpopolo Romano Superiore p[er]lesue singulari & in mense uirtu atutti glingegni degli sciptori chonoscendo niuna chosa essere piu acepta egrata agluomini che lauictoria; <exp> Carlo in Aquisgrana cipta presso alrheno mori dannj settantadua neglannj dixr[ist]o octocento qui[n]dicj edel suo jmperio quarantasepte chongrandissima gl[ori]a & beniuolenzia i[n]audita desuoj popolj);
 
fol. 71r: colophon: finis;
 
fols. 71v-72v: blank.

Material Copy

Bibliography

Fubini 1992, 70-71
 
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Bausi 1989, 120-21; Guerrini Ferri 2006, 183