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Opere volgari di Messer Francesco Petrarcha

Overview

Place of Publication

Fano
Italy

Date of Publication
1503
Creator
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi

Dedicatee

Description

Physical Description: Format

8°; a-z8, et8, A8; [200] fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; Petrarch’s poems in italic type, printed with one verse per line; no printed numbering

Title Page

OPERE VOLGARI DI | MESSER | FRANCESCO PETRARCHA

Internal Description

a1r: title page;
 
a1v: SONETTI ET CANZONI | DI MESSER | FRANCESCO PETRARCHA | IN LAVDE | DI MADONNA LAVRA;
 
a2r-t3r: RVF;
 
t3v-t5v: Petrarch’s disperse (canzone ‘Quel c’ha nostra natura in se piu degno’ and canzone [actually ballad] ‘Noua belleza in habito gentile’);
 
t6r-et5r: Triumphi;
 
et5r: colophon: Impresso in Fano Caesaris per Hieronimo Soncino nel .M.D.III. adi VII de luglio;
 
et5v-A3r: index of the first lines of RVF sonnets in order of appearance;
 
A3r-A4r: index of the first lines of RVF canzoni in order of appearance;
 
A4r: index of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance;
 
A4r: list of errata;
 
A4v-A5r: blank;
 
A5v: Giovan Antonio Taurelli’s dedicatory sonnet to Cesare Borgia (‘Quo impressores divum Caesarem Borgiam alloquuntur’, <inc> Deue ciascun deuoto e bon vasallo);
 
A6r-A7r: Soncino’s dedicatory letter to Cesare Borgia (‘Ad illustriss. et excellentiss. principem Caes. Borgiam Aemyliae ac Valentiae ducem etc. et S.R.E. vexilliferum Hieronymus Soncinus’);
 
A7r-A8r: Soncino’s address to readers;
 
A8v: blank.

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