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Nuova spositione del sonetto che comincia In nobil sangue uita humile, e’ queta

Overview

Place of Publication

Florence
Italy

Date of Publication
1554
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF 215

Academy

Accademia Fiorentina, Florence
Italy

Description

Physical Description: Format

8o; a8-c8; 44, [4] p.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; Petrarch’s poem in italic type and lecture in roman type; printed numbering; single lines or small sections of Petrarch’s poems set on left, with prose text of lecture distributed across the page beneath each of them.

Title Page

NVOVA | SPOSITIONE | DEL SONETTO | CHE COMINCIA | In nobil sangue uita humile, e’ queta | Ne la quale si dichiara qual sia stata la vera | nobiltà di Madonna Laura. | Per M[esser] Simone de la Barba da Pescia | Academico Fiorentino. | [Medici’s coat of arms] | IN FIRENZE | MDLIIII.

Internal Description

a1r: title page;

a1v: blank;

a2r-a2v: Simone della Barba’s dedicatory letter to Giulio de’ Medici (‘Al molto magnifico et illustrissimo sig[nor] Giulio de Medici patron suo singularissimo’);

a3r-c6v: della Barba’s academic lecture on RVF 215 (<inc> Perche si come è, cosa molto pericolosa il lasciare crescere, e’ pigliar uigore a l’herbe inutili; <exp> Resta che io vi renda infinite gratie della benigna e’ grata vdienza che mi hauete data, e’ così fo fine);

c7r-c8v: blank.

Copy Seen

Location

John Rylands Library
Manchester
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Bullock Collection 183
Notes

The lecture deals with the nature of nobility and explores its various types, in relation to Laura and with many quotations from Dante and classical authors.
 
RVF 215 is printed at fol. a4r. Other Petrarchan texts quoted include: RVF 229 (b5r); RVF 23 (b5r); RVF 184 (b5v); RVF 201 (b5v); Triumphus Amoris IV.25-27; Triumphus Fame III.58-60 (c2v); Triumphus Fame I.34 (c2v); RVF 4 (c4v); RVF 263 (c5r). Authors quoted in the lecture include: Virgil, Ovid, Juvenal, Varro, Aulus Gellius, Boethius, and Dante.

Bibliography

Huss-Neumann-Regn 2004