Overview
Venice
Italy
RVF 1-2
Description
12o; A-F12, G6; 155, [1] pp.
paper; Petrarch’s poems and text of commentary in italic type; printed numbering; single lines or small sections of Petrarch’s poems set in central blocks, with prose text of commentary distributed across the page beneath each of them.
IL SECONDO | TOMO DELL’OPERE | DI M[ESSER] GIVLIO CAMILLO | DELMINIO, | CIOÈ, | La Topica, ouero dell’Elocutione. | Discorso sopra l’Idee di Hermogene. | La Grammatica. | Espositione sopra il primo & secondo | Sonetto del Petrarca. | NVOVAMENTE DATO IN LVCE. | CON PRIVILEGIO. | [printer’s mark] | IN VINEGIA APPRESSO GABRIEL | GIOLITO DE’ FERRARI. | M D L X V I.
A1r: title page;
A1v: blank;
A2r: Francesco Patrizi’s dedication to Sertorio di Collalto;
A2v: blank;
A3r-C12v: Giulio Camillo’s Topica (‘La topica, overo della Elocvtione, di messer Givlio Camillo Delminio’);
D1r-D2r: Patrizi’s dedicatory letter to Sertorio di Collalto with some notes on Camillo’s life and works (‘Al molto ill[ustre] sig[nor] conte Sertorio da Collalto’);
D2v: blank;
D3r-E1v: Camillo’s Discourse on Hermogenes (‘Discorso di m[esser] Givlio Camillo sopra Hermogene’);
E2r-E9v: Camillo’s commentary on RVF 1 (‘Espositione di m[esser] Givlio Camillo Delminio, sopra ’l primo, et secondo sonetto del Petrarca’; <inc of commentary after RVF 1> ‘Voi’. Questa uoce posta nel uocatiuo, senza esser appoggiata a uerbo ha tenuto faticati molti; <exp> Et dalla poca durabilità della eccellente bellezza disse alle 99. Ma che? uen tardo, & subito ua uia. Ma perche dicesse uen tardo, diremo al suo luogo’);
E9v: colophon: Il fine della espositione sopra il primo sonetto del Petrarca;
E10r-F1v: Camillo’s commentary on RVF 2 (‘Espositione di m[esser] Givlio Camillo Delminio, sopra ’l secondo sonetto del Petrarca’; <inc of commentary after RVF 2> Qvesta è un’altra maniera di scusarsi. Et è uenuta al Petrarca si ben fatta; <exp> Doue e una bella relatione. Ma non di questa forza);
F1v: colophon: Il fine della espositione sopra il secondo sonetto del Petrarca;
F2r-G3r: Camillo’s Grammatica (‘Grammatica di m[esser] Givlio Camillo Delminio’);
G3v-G4r: Camillo’s letter to Antonio Altano (‘Al s[ignor] Antonio Altano conte di Salvarolo’);
G4v-G5r: Camillo’s first letter to Bernardino Fratina (‘Al s[ignor] Bernardino Fratina’);
G5v: Camillo’s second letter to Bernardino Fratina (‘Al s[ignor] Bernardino Fratina’);
G6r: register and colophon: In Vinegia appresso Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari M D L X V;
G6v: printer’s mark.
Copy Seen
John Rylands Library
Manchester
United Kingdom
Camillo’s commentary provides 1) grammatical and rhetorical observations; 2) Petrarchan loci paralleli and quotations of classical authors, such as Horace and Vergil, and religious authors, such as Paul the Apostole; 3) paraphrases of passages or explanations of the meaning of some words; 4) philosophical readings based on references to Porphyry, Plato, and Aristotle.
RVF 1 and 2 are quoted in full at fols. E2r-E2v and E10r-E11v respectively.
In the Manchester copy, there are some handwritten rubrics and some annotations from other works by Camillo (the most extensive one at blank fol. A1v).
The first edition of the Secondo tomo of Camillo’s works, which is added to his Tutte le opere, was printed by Giolito and edited by Lodovico Dolce and Francesco Patrizi in 1552. Camillo’s collections of works have been printed several times in the second half of the sixteenth century in different and combined forms (i.e. only the first or the second part; a combination of the first and the second part from different years). For the purpose of clarity, the database includes all the different editions of the Secondo tomo of Camillo’s works, namely the volume containing his commentaries on Petrarch.
Manchester copy is bound with Giulio Camillo’s Tutte le opere (Venice: Giolito, 1566).
Grohovaz 1987, 340