Iacobi Philippi Tomasini Petrarcha redivivus

4°; [*]⁴, **⁴, A-N⁸, O-Z⁴; [16], 270 pp.

paper; texts in roman type; printed numbering; 3 portraits, 2 maps, and 15 engravings (14 full-page ones and 1 rectangular-box one)

IACOBII PHILIPPI | TOMASINI PATAVINI| EPISCOPI AEMONIENSIS | PETRARCHA | REDIVIVVS, | Integram Poetae celeberrimi Vitam Iconibus aere | caelatis exhibens. | Accessit Nobilissimae Feminae | LAVRAE | BREVIS HISTORIA. | Editio altera correcta & aucta. | Cui addita Poetae Vita |PAVLO VERGERIO, ANONYMO, IANNOZZO. | MANETTO, LEONARDO ARETINO, | ET LUDOVICO BECCADELLO | Auctoribus. | Item, V. C. FORTUNII LICETI ad Epist. TOMASINI | de Petrarchae cognominis ortographia Responsum. || PATAVII, M D C L | Typis Pauli Frambotti Bibliopolae. | Superiorum permissu.

[*]1r: full-page engraving of Laura standing close to an altar on which is engraved ‘Iac. Philippi Tomasini Petrarcha Redivivus Laura comite’;
 
[*]1v: blank;
 
[*]2r: title page;
 
[*]2v: blank;
 
[*]3r-[*]4r: Paolo Frambotto’s dedicatory letter in Latin to Deidamia Gambara (‘Illustrissimae Dominae D. Deidamiae Gambarae, Virolae Toparchae, Sanguineti comiti & c. Natalium ac Virtutum splendore Nobilissimae’);
 
[*]4v-**1r: Latin address to readers (‘Lectori benevolo’);
 
**1v-**2r: Lorenzo Pignorio’s Latin praise of Tomasini’s work (‘Laurentius Pignorius Iacobo Philippo Tomasino Canonico S. Mariae in Vantio, & Coenobiarchae, Viro admodum Reuerendo’);
 
**2v-**3r: two Latin poems [by Lorenzo Pignorio] in praise of Tomasini (‘Ad autorem’, <inc> Decora nympha, prescius Daphnes suae; and ‘Ad eundem’, <inc> Cui Patriam invidit variae discordia gentis);
 
**3v-**4r: table of contents (‘Index capitulum’);
 
**4v: full-page engraving of a portrait of Petrarch;
 
A1r-A1v: Tomasini’s preface to his Latin life of Petrarch (‘Francisci Petrarchae Vita. Praeloquium’);
 
A2r-A4v: first chapter of Tomasini’s life of Petrarch, devoted to the poet’s nationality, birth, and parents (‘Poetae patria, natales, parentes’);
 
A4v-A6r: second chapter on the poet’s body and habits (‘Constitutio corporis, et mores animi’);
 
A6r-A8v: third chapter on the poet’s studies (‘Educatio, et studia’);
 
A8v-B2r: fourth chapter on the poet’s talents (‘Ingenii praestantia’);
 
B2r-B3v: fifth chapter on the poet’s eloquence and poetry (‘Eloquentia & poesis’);
 
B3v-B7r: sixth chapter on the poet’s works (‘Egregia ngenii [sic] monumenta’);
 
B7r-C1v: seventh chapter on the poet’s manuscripts housed in the Vatican library (‘Francisci Petrarchae Opera m[anus]s[cripta] quae asseruantur in Bibliotheca Vaticana’);
 
C2r-C3v: eighth chapter on the poet’s biographers and commentators (‘Census eorum, qui vatis nostri vitam consripserunt, quive eiusdem opera commentariis illustrarunt’);
 
C4r-C6r: ninth chapter on the assertions of his rights (‘Vindiciae tutelares’);
 
C6r-D3v: tenth chapter on the poet’s coronation (‘Honores, et inprimis laurea ex poesi parta’);
 
D3v-D5v: eleventh [wrongly printed as twelfth] chapter on the poet’s relations with other literati (‘Necessitudo cum literatis’);
 
D6r-E2v: twelfth chapter on the poet’s appreciation among his contemporaries (‘Existimatio apud principes et alios’);
 
E2v-E5r: thirteenth chapter on the poet’s relation with the Republic of Venice (‘Ser[enissimae] Reip[ublicae] Venetae affectus in fidem et obsequium poetae’);
 
E5v: full-page engraving of Vaucluse;
 
E6r-F1r: fourteenth chapter on the poet’s life in Vaucluse (‘Poetae secessus in Vallem Clausam’);
 
F1r-F4v: fifteenth chapter on the poet’s love for Laura (‘Affectus in Lauram’);
 
F4v: rectangular-box engraving of Laura’s portrait;
 
F5r-G5r: sixteenth chapter on Laura’s life and praises (‘Laurae Petrarchae vita, et encomia’); at fol. G2r is a small rectangular-box engraving of a coin with Laura’s effigy;
 
G5v: different full-page portrait of Laura;
 
G6r-G6v: seventeenth chapter on the portrait of Laura (‘Laurae de sado effigies’);
 
G6v-G8v: eighteenth chapter on the poet Giustina Levi Perotti’s admiration for the poet (‘Iustinae Levi Perottae cultus in Petrarcham’);
 
G8v-H2r: nineteenth [wrongly printed as eighteenth] chapter on the poet’s time in Milan and Parma (‘De solitudine mediolanensi, et parmensi’);
 
H2v-I1v: twentieth [wrongly printed as nineteenth] chapter on the poet’s house in Arquà (‘Arquadae collis vicus, et Petrarchae domicilium’); within this section are 6 full-page engravings: a map of Arquà (H5r), Arqua’s spring (H5v), a planimetry of Petrarch’s house (H6r), Petrarch’s chair (H8v), a piece of furniture of Petrarch’s house (I1r), and the funerary monument of Petrarch’s cat (I1v);
 
I2r-I7v: twenty-first [wrongly printed as twentieth] chapter on the frescos painted in the poet’s house (‘Mythologia iconum eodem spectantium’); within this section are 6 full-page engravings: a landscape (I3r), a portrait of Petrarch (metamorphosing into a Laurel tree) and Laura (I4r), Petrarch (as Acteon) seeing a woman bathing in a pond (I5r), Petrarch pointing to a swan (I5v), Petrarch talking to Laura (I6v), and Laura taking Petrarch’s heart from his chest (I7r);
 
I7v-K1r: twenty-second chapter on posterity (‘Posteritas’);
 
K1r-K2v: twenty-third [wrongly printed as twenty-second] chapter on the poet’s compassion (‘Summa vatis pietas’);
 
K3r-K8r: twenty-fourth [wrongly printed as twenty-third] chapter on the poet’s old age, death, and funeral (‘Senectus, obitus, et funus’); at fol. K7r is a full-page engraving of Petrarch’s tomb;
 
K8v-L4v: twenty-fifth [wrongly printed as twenty-fourth] chapter on the monuments and literary works in praise of the poet (‘Monumenta Petrarchae vivo et defuncto posita, elogia eidem a viris claris concinnata’); at fol. L1r is a full-page engraving of a coin with Petrarch’s effigy on one side, and Laura on the other;
 
L4v-L6v: twenty-sixth [wrongly printed as twenty-fifth] and final chapter on the poet’s violated sepulcher (‘Divini vatis sepulchri violati historia’);
 
L7r: title-page (‘FRANCISCI PETRARCHAE | VITA | PAVLO VERGERIO | ANONYMO | IANOZZO MANETTO | LEONARDO ARETINO |. LVDOVICO BECCATELLO [sic]| AVCTORIBUS | E Manuscriptis nunc primum in lucem emissa | IACOBI PHILIPPI | TOMASINI | OPERA. | Accessit eiusdem, Epistola |. DE PETRARCHAE Orthographia’);
 
L7v: blank;
 
L8r-M4v: Paolo Vergerio’s Latin life of Petrarch (‘Petrarchae vita Paulo Vergerio auctore’);
 
M5r-N1v: anonymous (but Sicco Polenton’s) Latin life of Petrarch (‘F[rancisci] P[etrarchae] poetae clariss[imi] vita feliciter incipit auctoris incerti Anno 1463’);
 
N2r-N7v: Giannozzo Manetti’s Latin life of Petrarch (‘Francisci Petrarchae illustris poetae vita secundum Iannozzum Manettum incipit foeliciter’);
 
N8r-O2v: Leonardo Bruni’s life of Petrarch (‘Comincia la vita di Missier [sic] Francesco Petrarcha di Leonardo Aretino’);
 
O3r-S1r: Ludovico Beccadelli’s life of Petrarch (‘Vita del Petrarcha scritta da Ludovico Beccadello arcivescovo di Ragusa dal Signor Antonio Gigante da Fossombrone’);
 
S1r: Boccaccio’s sonnet ‘Hor se salito caro signor mio’ (‘Sonetto di M[esser] Giouanni Boccaccio in morte di M[esser] Francesco Petrarca’);
 
S1v: Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘Memorabilia quaedam de Laura, manu propria Francisci Petrarcae scripta in quodam Codice Virgilii in Papiensi Bibliotheca reperto’);
 
S1v-S2r: brief Latin excerpt from Petrarch’s Secretum (‘Ex Colloquio tertii diei’, <inc> Si vero paucorum numerus annorum’; <exp> quod illa mecum senescit);
 
S2r: anonymous sonnet ‘Qui giaccion quelle caste et felici ossa’ (‘Sonetto ritrouato nella sepoltura di Madonna Laura in Auignone del 1533’), supposedly found in Laura’s grave;
 
S2r-S2v: Petrarch’s metrical epistle on the death of his mother (‘Carmina Petrarce in funere electe matris’, <inc> Suscipe funereum genetrix sanctisima, cantum);
 
S2v-S3r: brief Latin passage from p. 407 of Antonio Possevino’s Doctoris Antonii Posseuini iunioris philosophi, et medici Mantouani Gonzaga. Calci operis addita Genealogia totius familiae [Mantua: Osanna, 1628] (‘Antonius Posseuinus iunior Gonzagae lib. 4 pag. 407 sic habet’, <inc> Nec liberalium artium gloriam abiecit; <exp> Vale. Auinione. Salutis 1369. 12 Cal. April.);
 
S3v-S4v: Tomasini’s work on the spelling of Petrarch’s name (‘De Petrarchae ortographia. Perillustri ac Eruditissimo Viro Fortunio Liceto, in celeberrimo Gym[nasio] Bono[niense] Professori Eminenti Iacobus Philippus Tomasinus Aemoniae Praesul. S. P.’);
 
T1r-X3v: Fortunio Liceto’s reply to Tomasini (‘Illustrissimo & Reuerendissimo Aemoniae Praesuli Iacobo Philippo Tomasino Fortunius Licetus B. A.’);
 
X4r-Y4r: alphabetical index of names mentioned in the work (‘Syllabus nominum, quae hoc in opera memorantur’);
 
Y4v-Z3v: alphabetical index of notable matters and words mentioned in the work (‘Index rerum, et verborum memorabilium’);
 
Z3v: colophon: Finis;
 
Z4r: list of errata (‘Errata grauiora sic restituantur’);
 
Z4v: blank.