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[RVF with Filelfo’s and Squarciafico’s commentaries and Triumphi with Ilicino’s commentary]

Overview

Place of Publication

Venice
Italy

Date of Publication
1488
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi

Description

Physical Description: Format

folio; A-O8, a-s8, t6; 112, 150 fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; Petrarch’s poems and commentary in roman type; printed numbering; some of Petrarch’s poems set on left in small block, with commentary distributed on three sides; some other of Petrarch’s poems set on left in a sequence of blocks, with commentary distributed in single column on right; some other ones set on both left and right in two horizontally aligned blocks, with commentary distributed across the page beneath each set of two blocks; six full-page woodcuts.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> Prohemio del prestante Oratore & poeta Messer Francesco Philelpho al illustrissimo & i[n]uicti simo principe Philippo Maria Anglo Duca de Milano circa la interpretatione per lui sopra gli sonetti & ca[n]zone de messer Francesco Petrarcha facta

Internal Description

First part
 
A1r: blank;
 
A1v: Filelfo’s dedicatory letter to Filippo Maria Visconti;
 
A2r-O8r: RVF 1-135 with Filelfo’s commentary, followed by RVF 136 with Filelfo’s and Squarciafico’s commentaries, followed by RVF 137-366 with Squarciafico’s commentary. H8r: explicit mention of the fact that the commentator changes: ‘SEGVITA LA INTERPRETATIONE DI HIERONYMO SQuARZAFICO ALEXANDRINO SOPRA EL RESTO DELLA PRESENTE OPERA’;
 
O8R: register and colophon: Finisse gli sonetti di Messer Francesco Petrarcha impressi in Venesia per Bernardino da nouara nelli anni Mcccclxxxviii.a di.xii zugno. Imperante il Serenissimo Augustino barbadico;
 
O8V: blank;
 
Second part
 
A1r: title page: TRYUMPHI DEL PETRARCHA;
 
a1v: Ilicino’s dedicatory letter to Borso d’Este;
 
a1v-a3r: Ilicino’s prologue to his commentary;
 
a3v-t5v: Triumphi with Ilicino’s commentary; each triumph is preceded by a full-page woodcut: Triumphus Amoris (a3v), Pudicitie (f2v), Mortis (g6v), Fame (i7v), Temporis (r1v), Eternitatis (s3v);
 
t5v: register and colophon: Finisse il commento delli triumphi del Petrarcha composto per il prestantissimo philosopho Misser Bernardo da monte illicinio da Sena. Impresso in Venitia con gra[n]de diligentia per Bernardino da Nouara nelli anni de nostro signore .M.CCCCLXXXVIII. adi.xviii.Aprile.

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