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Le cose volgari di Francesco Petrarcha

Overview

Place of Publication

Ancona
Italy

Date of Publication
1520
Creator
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi

Description

Physical Description: Format

12°; A-P12, Q14; [1], 186, [7] fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; Petrarch’s poems in italic type, printed with one verse per line; printed numbering; six full-page woodcuts.

Visual Elements
Title Page

LE COSE VOLGARI | Di MESSER | FRANCESCO PETRARCHA

Internal Description

A1r: title page;
 
A1v: SONETTI ET CANZONE | DI MESSER | FRANCESCO PETRARCHA | IN VITA | DI MADONNA LAVRA;
 
A2r-I8r: RVF 1-263;
 
I8r: SONETTI ET CANZONE | IN MORTE | DI MADONNA LAVRA;
 
I8r-N3r: RVF 264-366;
 
N3r: TRIOMPHI DI MESSER | FRANCESCO PE | TRARCHA;
 
N3v-Q7r: Triumphi; each triumph is preceded by a full-page woodcut: Triumphus Amoris (N3v), Pudicitie (O5v), Mortis (O9v), Fame (P4v), Temporis (P12v), Eternitatis (Q4r);
 
Q7r: colophon: Impresso in Ancona per Bernardino Gueralda Vercellese nel anno.M.D.XX. del mese de Settembrio, et corretto seco[n]do la copia d[i] meser Aldo Romano;
 
Q7r-Q14r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
Q14r: index of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance;
 
Q14v: blank.

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