Overview
Florence
Italy
RVF 215
Accademia Fiorentina, Florence
Italy
Description
8o; a8-c8; 44, [4] p.
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.
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.
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
John Rylands Library
Manchester
United Kingdom
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.
Huss-Neumann-Regn 2004