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Il Petrarca con l’espositione d’Alessandro Vellutello

Overview

Place of Publication

Venice
Italy

Date of Publication
1541
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi

Dedicatee

Description

Physical Description: Format

8°; Aa8, Bb4, A-Z8, AA-PP8; [12], 302, [2] fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; Petrarch’s poems and commentary in roman type; printed numbering; most 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.

Title Page

IL PETRARCA CON L’ESPOSI | TIONE D’ALESSANDRO | VELLVTELLO | E CON PIV VTILI COSE IN | DIVERSI LVUOGHI DI | QVELLA NOVISSIMAMENTE | DA LUI AGGIVNTE ET | RISTAMPATE | M. D. XLI.

Internal Description

Aa1r: title page;
 
Aa1v: blank;
 
Aa2r-Aa4r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are not listed in order of appearance) (‘Tavola de son[etti] et de le canz[oni] del Pet[rarca]’);
 
Aa4r: index of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance;
 
Aa4v-Aa5r: dedicatory letter to Jacopo Doria (‘Al nobilissimo messer Iacopo del magnifico messer Augustino D’Oria proemio d’Alessandro Vellutello’);
 
Aa5r-Aa8v: Vellutello’s life of Petrarch (‘Vita e costumi del poeta’);
 
Aa8v-Bb4v: Vellutello’s life of Laura with a description of Vaucluse (‘Origine di Madonna Laura con la descrittione di Valclusa et del luogo ove il poeta a principio di lei s’innamoro’);
 
Bb4v: Vellutello’s discussion of how RVF is divided into three parts (‘Divisione de son[etti] e de le canz[oni] del Pet. in tre parti’): those poems written during Laura’s life (‘tutti quelli, che veramente in vita di M[adonna] L[aura] si conoscono per la loro sententia da lui essere stati scritti, et che de suoi felici et infelici amorosi effetti et accidenti trattano, o che in quelli del suo amoroso errore mostra dolersi, o da esso errore desiderare di potersi rimovere, o d’essersi rimosso’), those composed after Laura’s death and on this theme (‘tutti quelli, che dopo la morte di lei, di tal morte propriamente, o per circoscrittione, o in altra forma parlano’), and all those devoted to any other person or theme than Laura;
 
A1r-S7r: first part of RVF with Vellutello’s commentary;
 
S7v-BB6v: second part of RVF (beginning with RVF 267) with Vellutello’s commentary;
 
BB7r-GG3v: third part of RVF (beginning with RVF 128) with Vellutello’s commentary;
 
GG4r: poems addressed to Petrarch by Muzio Stramazzo da Perugia (‘La santa fiamma de la qual son priue’), Giacomo Colonna (‘Se le parti del corpo mio distrutte’), Geri Gianfigliazzi (‘Messer Francesco, chi d’amor sospira’), and Giovanni Dondi dall’Orologio (‘Io n[on] so be[n] s’io vedo q[ue]l, ch’io veggio’), each poem followed by the first line of Petrarch’s reply accompanied by the page number where the poem is printed;
 
GG4v: Vellutello’s prologue to his commentary on the Triumphi (‘Alessandro Vellutello sopra i triomphi del Petrarcha’);
 
GG4v-GG5r: Vellutello’s overview of the content of the Triumphi (‘Soggetto de triomphi del poeta’);
 
GG5r-PP6r: Triumphi with Vellutello’s commentary;
 
PP6v: register and colophon: In Vinegia per Giouann’Antonio di Nicolini da Sabio nel anno del Signore M D XLI. De Genaro;
 
PP7r-PP8v: blank.

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