[RVF and Triumphi – with anonymous commentary]

This commentary offers two kinds of interpretative tools: a paraphrastic summary and a contextualisation of the poem. For RVF 179, for instance, the commentator writes ‘Scrive M[esser] F[rancesco] in q[ue]sto soneto ad uno so amico la uita ch[e]l tene con la soa dona eil modo come uiue nel suo amor[e]. co[n]sigliandolo anchello a far cussi come lui. etc.’ (fol. 72r). A second series of observations, normally introduced by ‘cioe’, clarifies the literal sense of words or expressions, especially when used metaphorically (e.g. RVF 107.13: ‘Ch[e]l mio aduersario con mirabile arte’ is glossed ‘cioe l’amor[e]’). Less numerous annotations identify similes: ‘co[m]paratione’. Most of Petrarch’s poems are commented upon within the ms. but there are some interruptions in the commentary at fols. 47r-54v; 72v-85v; 89v-93v; 162v-167r; 168r-172v.
 
Initials in gold for RVF 1, 264, and Triumphus Amoris I.
 
Fol. 61 is followed by an unnumbered fol., whose upper half has been cut off. It originally contained RVF 136 and 138; RVF 137, still present in the bottom half of the recto of the unnumbered fol., has been crossed out by pen.