Overview
Venice
Italy
RVF
Description
8°; A-C8, D4; 27, [1] fols.
paper; text in italic type; printed numbering; text distributed in two juxtaposed columns; one full-page woodcut (portrait).
RIMARIO DE TVTTE | LE CADENTIE DI DAN | TE, ET PETRARCA, | RACCOLTE PER | PELLEGRINO | MORETO | MANTOVANO. | MDXXIX. | [Printer’s Mark]
A1r: title page;
A1v: full-page portrait of a laureate poet within an architectural frame;
A2r-A2v: Moreto’s dedicatory letter (‘Pellegrino Moreto Mantovano a Bernardino Mazzolino Ferrarese compatre suo honorando S.D.’);
A3r-D3v: list of rhymes used by Dante and Petrarch in alphabetical order, each rhyme followed by the corresponding rhyme words with reference to either the Petrarchan or Dantean passage concerned;
D3v: colophon: Finis. Stampato in Vinegia per Nicolo d’Aristotile detto Zoppino, del mese di Nouembrio M D X X I X;
D4r-D4v: blank.
Copy Seen
Biblioteca Palatina
Parma
Italy
In the Parma copy, fol. D1 is missing.