Overview
Perugia
Italy
RVF
Description
8°; A-O8, P12; 123 fols.
paper; Petrarch’s poems in italic type and commentary in roman type; Petrarch’s poems set on left with commentary distributed across the page above and beneath them; printed numbering.
DIALOGHI | DI | LODOVICO | ZVCCOLO. | Della Betta, e della Disdetta. | Della Vergogna. | Dell’Amore de’ Platonici, | Del Petrarca & | Della Gelosia. | Del buon dì. | Della Pastorale. | AI MOLTO ILLVSTRI SIGNOR | Antonio Migliore, & Sig. Clemente Bartoli. || IN PERVGIA | Appresso Annibale Aluigi, & Fratelli. 1615. | Con licenza de’ Superiori
A1r: title page;
A1v: blank;
A2r-A2v: Zuccolo’s dedicatory letter to Antonio Migliore and Clemente Bartoli (‘Ai molto illustri signori patroni imei osservandissimi Il Signor Antonio Migliore Gentil’huomo, e Canonico d’Ascoli, & il Signore Clemente Bartoli Gentil’huomo d’Vrbino’);
A3r-D3v: Zuccolo’s dialogue ‘Il Castellano ouero della detta, & della disdetta’;
D4r-F1v: Zuccolo’s dialogue ‘Il Severolo overo della vergogna’;
F2r-K2r: Zuccolo’s dialogue ‘Il Carrara overo Squittino, Dell’Amore de’ Platonici, et del Petrarca’ (‘Il Carrara overo Squittino, Dell’Amore de’ Platonici, et del Petrarca. Dialogo di Lodovico Zuccolo. Interlocutori. Francesco Pigna, Antonio Carrara’, <inc> Dissero, e con molta ragione, gli antichi Filosofi, Iddio, e la natura non mai produrre alcuna delle opere loro indarno; <exp> questo è l’asilo della honestà delle Donne, il rifugio della incontinenza de’ giovuani, il sostegno della imbecillità feminile, il porto delle fatiche, & de i trauagli de gli huomini; & in fine vna ancora ben salda, oue di continuo la humana vita in gran parte s’appoggia);
K2v: blank;
K3r-K6v: Zuccolo’s dialogue ‘Il Cataneo, overo della gelosia’;
K7r-M8v: Zuccolo’s dialogue ‘Il Rondanino, overo del buon dì’;
N1r-P12r: Zuccolo’s dialogue ‘L’Alessandro, overo della pastorale’;
P12v: list of errata.
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Biblioteca nazionale centrale
Rome
Italy
In the ‘Il Carrara’, Zuccolo claims that love has always had a sensual component arguing against the Platonic theory of love. He states that Platonic idea of love as exclusively a pure and ethereal feeling is wrong, since real love has a corporeal component too that has to be satisfied. Only appeasing both the spiritual and the corporeal dimentions that nourish the feeling of love, can one experience real love and full joy. Zuccolo, however, states that the corporeal element has to be regulared to prevent it becoming lustful.
Zuccolo shows that also Petrarch did not love Laura in an exclusively spiritualized way. The poet – states Zuzzolo – was honest, but had carnal feelings too (Zuccolo quotes several passages from the RVF poems containing allusions to these feelings). Zuccolo also maintains that, since Petrarch could not marry Laura, the poet showed that one can be perfected through love, by making the amorous object a means to reach the Heaven.
Reference is made (among others) to many RVF poems (including RVF 1, 37, 48, 56, 62, 80, 165, 172, 191, 207, 230, 264, 265, 270, 290, 306, 334, 347, 348, 364, and 366), some capitoli of the Triumphi (including Amoris I), Ariosto, Aristotle, Horace, Ovid, Plautus, Propertius, Terence, Torquato Tasso, Virgil.