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[Benedetti’s rimario]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Casanatense
Rome
Italy

Shelfmark
ms. 2004
Date
sixteenth century (1595)
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi

Dedicatee

Description

Physical Description: Format

190x130 mm, II + 54 + III fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; sixteenth-century cursive hand; Petrarch’s rhyme words are distributed in two central columns (fols. 4r-7r: rhyme words are accompanied with the reference to the line of Petrarch’s poems placed on the left of central-left column and on the right of central-right column).

Title Page

Al lettore (fol. 2r)

Internal Description

fol. 1r: blank;
 
fol. 1v: title page penned by a later hand (‘Giuseppe Benedetti da Fiorentillo Rimario’);
 
fol. 2r-2v: [Giuseppe Benedetti’s] address to readers (‘Al lettore’; <inc> Leggendo l’infrascritto Rimario, me sicuro (Lectore car[issi]mo) siate per reputarlo in molte parti mendoso; <exp> il numero è posto sino alla terza uolta l’Auttore habbi usata l’istessa diuione [sic] e da quello in giù quanteoulte l’habbi usata);
 
fol. 3r-3v: Benedetti’s dedicatory letter to Francesco Colonna (‘All’Ill[ustrissi]mo et Ecc[ellentissi]mo Sig[no]re [†††] Col[endissi]mo Il Sig[no]r Franc[esc]o Colonna, Principe di Palestrina, Città Nobilissima’; <inc> Desidero far parte del debito mio uerso V[ostra] E[ccellenza] Ill[ustrissi]ma in cauare il Rimario del Principe de Poeti, franc[esc]o Petrarcha; <exp> pregandogli dal sig[no]re ogni contento gli bacio le mani Di Basfanello il di 15 d’Aprile 1595 D[i] V[ostra] E[ccellenza] Ill[ustrissi]ma Ser[vito]re deditiss[i]mo Gioseffe [sic] Benedicti da Fiorentillo);
 
fols. 4r-43r: Benedetti’s rimario arranged in alphabetic order (<inc> a[more] 4 labbia | c[anzone] 28 Gabbia | c[anzone] 28, a[more] 4 Rabbia; <exp> Condutto | Frutto | Asciutto | Lutto | Sciutto | Ridutto);
 
fols. 43v-54v: blank.

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Casanatense
Rome
Italy

Shelfmark
ms. 2004
Copy seen by
Lorenzo
Sacchini
Notes

This rimario is probably unfinished since the references to the line of Petrarch’s works are present until fol. 7r. For these references Benedetti used the following abbreviations (as illustrated in the address to readers): numbers: sonnets from RVF; ‘a’: Triumphus Amoris; ‘c’: canzoni from RVF; ‘C’: Triumphus Pudicitie; ‘d’: Triumphus Eternitatis (or Divinitatis); ‘f’: Triumphus Fame; ‘m’: Triumphus Mortis; ‘t’: Triumphus Temporis.

Bibliography

Iter, II, 96a
 
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Calvesi 1987, 91