Overview
Venice
Italy
RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia
Description
8°; a-z8-A-C8; 184, [24] fols.
paper; Petrarch’s poems in italic type, printed with one verse per line; printed numbering
IL PETRARCHA
a1r: title page;
a1v-a2r: Manutius’s Latin dedicatory letter to Desiderio Curzio Chariati (‘Aldus P.M. Desyderio Curtio a Secretiis illustriss. Comitis Chariati S.P.D.’);
a2v: SONETTI ET CANZONI | DI MESSER | FRANCESCO PETRARCHA | IN VITA | DI MADONNA LAVRA;
a3r-n7v: RVF 1-266;
n7v: SONETTI ET CANZONI | DI MESSER | FRANCESCO PETRARCHA | IN MORTE | DI MADONNA LAVRA;
n8r-s6r: RVF 267-366;
s6v-s8r: blank;
s8v: TRIOMPHI | DI MESSER | FRANCESCO | PETRARCHA;
t1r-z7v: Triumphi;
z7v: colophon: Impresso in Vinegia nelle case d’Aldo Romano, nel’anno [sic] MDXIII del mese di Agosto;
z8r-z8v: blank;
A1r-A7v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
A7v: index of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance;
A8r-A8v: blank;
B1r-B3v: Manutius’s address to readers (‘Aldo agli lettori’);
B4r-C2v: Triumphus Fame Ia (‘Nel cor pien d’amarissima dolcezza’), followed by Petrarch’s disperse (canzone ‘Quel c’ha nostra natura in se piu degno’, sonnets ‘Anima doue sei? Ch’ad hora ad hora’, ‘Ingegno usato alle question profonde’, ‘Stato foss’io, quando la uidi prima’, ‘In ira a i cieli, al mondo, & alla gente’, ‘Se sotto legge Amor uiuesse quella’, ‘Lasso com’io fui mal proueduto’, ‘Quella, che ’l giouenil mio cor auinse’);
C2v-C4r: poems addressed to Petrarch by Geri Gianfigliazzi (‘Messer Francesco chi d’amor sospira’), Giovanni Dondi dall’Orologio (‘Io non so ben s’io uedo quel, ch’io ueggio’), Sennuccio del Bene (‘Oltra l’usato modo si regira’), Giacomo Colonna (‘Se le parti del corpo mio destrutte’), each poem is ollowed by the first line of Petrarch’s reply accompanied by the page number where the poem is printed;
C4r-C7v: three canzoni by Guido Cavalcanti (‘Donna mi prega: perche uoglio dire’), Dante Alighieri (‘Cosi nel mio parlar uoglio esser aspro’), and Cino da Pistoia (‘La dolce uista, e ’l bel guardo soave’);
C8r: list of errata;
C8v: Manutius printer’s mark.
Notes: the beginning of the ‘rime in morte’ comes later (with RVF 267) compared to the 1501 Aldine RVF edition.
Copy Seen
John Rylands Library
Manchester
United Kingdom
John Rylands Library
Manchester
United Kingdom
John Rylands Library
Manchester
United Kingdom
One of the John Rylands Library copies (Aldine Collection 125(1)) is on vellum. In this edition, Triumphus Fame Ia (fols. y1r-y3v) is printed instead of Triumphus Fame I, and the headings of the following two capitoli of the Triumphi (i.e., Triumphus Fame II and Triumphus Fame III) diverge from those printed in the paper copies (i.e., Manchester, John Rylands Library, Aldine Collection 125(2) and Manchester, John Rylands Library, Aldine Collection 125(3)): ‘DEL TRIOMPHO DELLA | FAMA CAPITOL •I I•’ (on vellum copy) instead of ‘DEL TRIOMPHO DEL | LA FAMA CAPI | TOL. I I•’ (on paper copy); and ‘DEL TRIOMPHO DELLA | FAMA CAPITOL •I I I•’ (on vellum copy) instead of ‘DEL TRIOMPHO DEL | LA FAMA CAPI | TOL. I I I•’ (on paper copy).