Iacobi Philippi Tomasini Franciscus Petrarcha redivivs [sic]

4°; [*]², A-Z⁴, Aa-Cc⁴; 208 pp.

paper; texts in roman type; printed numbering; 1 portrait, 2 maps, 14 engravings (13 full-page ones and 1 rectangular-box one).

IACOBII PHILIPPI | TOMASINI | FRANCISCVS | PETRARCHA | REDIVIVS [sic] | Vna cum | LAVRAE AMASIAE SVAE | VITA. | [Printer’s mark] | PATAVII, | Apud Variscum de Varischis. M DC XXX | Superiorum Permissu.

[*]1r: title page;
 
[*]1v-[*]2v: blank;
 
A1r-A1v: Tomasini’s preface to his life of Petrarch (‘Francisci Petrarchae Vita. Praeloquium’);
 
A2r [wrongly printed ‘B2’]-A4v: first chapter of Tomasini’s Latin life of Petrarch, devoted to the poet’s nationality, birth, and parents (‘Poetae patria, natales, parentes’);
 
B1r-B3r: second chapter on the poet’s physical appearance and behaviours (‘Constitutio corporis, et mores animi’);
 
B3r-C1v: third chapter on the poet’s studies (‘Educatio, et studia’);
 
C2r-C3v: fourth chapter on the poet’s talents (‘Ingenii praestantia’);
 
C4r-D1v: fifth chapter on the poet’s eloquence and poetry (‘Eloquentia & poesis’);
 
D2r-E2r: sixth chapter on the poet’s works (‘Egregia ingenii monumenta’);
 
E2r-F1v: seventh chapter on the poet’s manuscripts housed in the Vatican library (‘Francisci Petrarchae Opera m[anus]s[cripta] quae asseruantur in Bibliotheca Vaticana’);
 
F2r-F3v: eighth chapter on the poet’s biographers and commentators (‘Census eorum, qui vatis nostri vitam consripserunt, quive eiusdem opera co[m]mentarijs illustrarunt’);
 
F4r-G2r: ninth chapter on the poet’s claims (‘Vindiciae tutelares‘’);
 
G2v-H4r: tenth chapter on the poet’s coronation (‘Honores, et inprimis laurea ex poesi parta’);
 
H4v-I2v: eleventh [wrongly printed as twelfth] chapter on the poet’s relations with other literati (‘Necesstudo [sic] cum literatis’);
 
I3r-K4v: twelfth chapter on the poet’s appreciation among his contemporaries (‘Existimatio apud principes et alios’);
 
L1r-L4r: thirteenth chapter on the poet’s relation with the Republic of Venice (‘Ser[enissimae] Reip[ublicae] Venetae affectus in fidem et obsequium poetae’);
 
L4v: full-page engraving of Vaucluse;
 
M1r-M4v: fourteenth chapter on the poet’s life in Vaucluse (‘Poetae secessus in Vallem Clausam’);
 
N1r-N4r: fifteenth chapter on the poet’s love for Laura (‘Affectus in Lauram’);
 
N4v: full-page engraving of Laura’s portrait;
 
O1r-P4r: sixteenth chapter, devoted to Laura’s life and praises (‘Laurae Petrarchae vita, et encomia’); at fol. P3r is a small rectangular-box engraving of a coin with Laura’s effigy;
 
P4v-Q2v: seventeenth chapter on the poet Giustina Levi Perotti’s admiration for the poet (‘Iustinae Levi Perottae cultus in Petrarcham’);
 
Q3r-Q4v: eighteenth chapter on the poet’s time in Parma (‘De solitudine parmensi’);
 
R1r-T1r: 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 (R2r), Arquà’s spring (R3v), a planimetry of Petrarch’s house (S1r), Petrarch’s chair (S3r), a piece of furniture of Petrarch’s house (S4r), and the funerary monument of Petrarch’s cat (S4v);
 
T1v-V3v: twentieth chapter on the frescoes painted in the poet’s house (‘Mythologia iconum eodem spectantium’); within this section are 6 full-page engravings: a landscape (T2v), a portrait of Petrarch (metamorphosing into a Laurel tree) and Laura (T3v), Petrarch (as Acteon) seeing a woman bathing in a pond (T4v), Petrarch pointing to a duck (V1v), [Petrarch talking to Laura (V2v) – this fol. is missing in the Cornell copy], and Laura taking Petrarch’s heart from his chest (V3v);
 
V3v-X1r: twenty-first chapter on posterity (‘Posteritas’);
 
X1v-X3v: twenty-second chapter on the poet’s compassion (‘Summa vatis pietas’);
 
X3v-Z1v: twenty-third chapter on the poet’s old age, death, and funeral (‘Senectus, obitus, et funus’); at fol. Y4v is a full-page engraving of Petrarch’s tomb;
 
Z2r-Aa2v: 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. Z2v is a full-page engraving of a coin with Petrarch’s effigy on one side, and Laura on the other (Z2v);
 
Aa2v-Bb3r: twenty-fifth and final chapter on the poet’s violated sepulcher (‘Divini vatis sepulchri violate historia’);
 
Bb3r: colophon: Finis;
 
Bb3v-Cc4v: alphabetical index of notable matters and names mentioned in the work (‘Index rerum, et nominum’);
 
Cc4v: colophon: Finis.