Il Petrarcha con la spositione di m[isser] Giovanni Andrea Gesvaldo

4°; 2 parts: aa-bb⁸, cc⁶, A⁴, B-Z⁸, AA-VV⁸, XX⁴, a-i⁸; [22], 346; [72] fols.

paper; Petrarch’s poems and commentary in italic type; printed numbering; Petrarch’s poems printed with one verse per line on left, followed by commentary printed next to it in the same line and then distributed across the page beneath them, and prose texts; six rectangular-box woodcuts, two portraits, and title page between architectural frame.

[Medallion portraits of Petrarch and Laura] | IL PETRARCHA | CON LA SPOSITIONE DI | M[ESSER] GIOVANNI ANDREA | GESVALDO. | AL MAGNIF[ICO] M[ESSER] BERNARDO | PRIVLI, FV DEL MAGNIFICO | M[ESSER] GIACOMO | PER DOMENICO GIGLIO

First part:
 
aa1r: title page;

aa1v: blank;

aa2r: papal brief dated 15 February 1530 (‘Clemens Papa VII’);

aa2r-aa2v: Domenico Giglio’s dedicatory letter to Bernardo Priuli (‘Al magnifico messer Bernardo Privli, fv del magnifico m[esser] Giacomo, patron svo honorandissimo Domenico Giglio s[crive]’);

aa3r-bb6v: Gesualdo’s life of Petrarch (‘La vita del Petrarcha’); bb7r-bb7v: Gesualdo’s life of Laura (‘La vita di madonna Laura’);

bb7v-bb8v: note on the order and partition of RVF (‘L’ordine e la divisione de l’opra’);

bb8v-cc1r: note on the quality of verses (‘La qvalita de versi’); cc1r: note on the moral benefit provided by Petrarch’s work (‘L’vtilitate’);

c1v-c4v: passages from Petrarch’s work on which the biography is based (‘I lvoghi del Petrarcha, onde lo spositore ha raccolto qvanto ha qvi scritto di lvi’);

cc5r-cc6v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance) (‘La tavola de sonetti e de le canzoni’);

A1-NN1v: RVF 1-266 with Gesualdo’s commentary (‘I sonetti et le canzoni del Petrarcha colla spositione del Gesvaldo’);

NN2r-XX6r: RVF 267-366 with Gesualdo’s commentary (‘I sonetti, et le canzoni del Petrarcha in morte di madonna Lavra’);

XX6v: blank;
 
Second part:
 
a1r: title page: I TRIONFI | DEL PETRARCHA, | CON LA SPOSITIONE DI M[ESSER] | GIOVANNI ANDREA | GESVALDO DA | TRAETTO | M. D. LIII.;

a1v: blank;

a2r-a2v: overview of Triumphi’s content (‘Il soggetto de Trionfi del poeta’);

a3r-i7v: Triumphi with Gesualdo’s commentary; each triumph is preceded by a rectangular-box woodcut: Amoris (a3r), Pudicitie (d5r), Mortis (e4r), Fame (f5v), Temporis (h7r), Eternitatis (i3v);

i8r: register and colophon: In Venetia per Domenico Giglio. M D LIII.