Overview
Fano
Italy
RVF, Triumphi
Description
8°; a-z8, et8, A8; [200] fols.
paper; Petrarch’s poems in italic type, printed with one verse per line; no printed numbering
OPERE VOLGARI DI | MESSER | FRANCESCO PETRARCHA
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.
Copy Seen
John Rylands Library
Manchester
United Kingdom
In the John Rylands Library copy, fols. A5-A8 are bound at the beginning of the edition (before fol. a2); there is no fol. a1 with title page.