Overview
Venice
Italy
RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia
Description
12°; [A2], B-R12, S6; [2], CXCII, [7] fols.
paper; Petrarch’s poems in italic type, printed with one verse per line; printed numbering.
Petrarca
[A1r]: title page;
[A1v]: blank;
[A2r]-[A2v]: Giovanni Lanzo Gabbiano’s dedicatory letter to Marco Antonio da Bologna (‘Alo excellente Messer Marco antonio da Bologna gioua[n]ni la[n]zo Gabbiano’);
B1r-N7v: RVF;
N8r: TRIOMPHI | DI MESSER | FRANCESCO | PETRARCA;
N8V-Q8r: Triumphi;
Q8v-Q11r: Manutius’s address to readers (‘Aldo agli lettori’);
Q11v-R6r: Triumphus Fame Ia (‘Nel cor pien d’amarissima dolcezza’), followed by Petrarch’s disperse (canzone ‘Quel c’ha nostra natura in se piu degno’, sonnets ‘Anima doue sei? Ch’ad hora ad hora’, ‘Ingegno usato alle question profonde’, ‘Stato foss’io, quando la uidi prima’, ‘In ira a i cieli, al mondo, & alla gente’, ‘Se sotto legge Amor uiuesse quella’, ‘Lasso com’io fui mal proueduto’, ‘Quella, che ’l giouenil mio cor auinse’);
R6r-R7v: poems addressed to Petrarch by Geri Gianfigliazzi (‘Messer Francesco chi d’amor sospira’), Giovanni Dondi dall’Orologio (‘Io non so ben s’io uedo quel, ch’io ueggio’), Sennuccio del Bene (‘Oltra l’usato modo si regira’), Giacomo Colonna (‘Se le parti del corpo mio destrutte’), each poem followed by the first line of Petrarch’s reply accompanied by the page number where the poem is printed;
R7v-R11r: three canzoni by Guido Cavalcanti (‘Donna mi prega: perche uoglio dire’), Dante Alighieri (‘Cosi nel mio parlar uoglio esser aspro’), and Cino da Pistoia (‘La dolce uista, e ’l bel guardo soave’);
R11v-S6r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
S6r: index of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance;
S6r: colophon: Impresso in Vinegia nelle case de Gregorio de Gregoriis nel’anno M.D.XXIII. del mese de Marzo;
S6v: blank.
Copy Seen
Cornell University Library
Ithaca, NY
United States
British Library
London
United Kingdom
In British Library copy (which is printed on vellum), quire A is missing.