[RVF with Filelfo’s and Squarciafico’s commentaries and Triumphi with Ilicino’s commentary]

Overview

Place of Publication

Venice
Italy

Printer
Date of Publication
1491-1492
Creator
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

Triumphi, RVF

Editor
Dedicatee

Description

Physical Description: Format

folio; A-M8, N6, aa8, a-q8; 102, [8], 128 fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; Petrarch’s poems and commentary in roman type; printed numbering; some of Petrarch’s poems set on left (or right) in small block, with commentary distributed on three sides; some other of Petrarch’s poems set on both left and right in two horizontally aligned blocks, with commentary distributed across the page beneath each set of two blocks; six full-page woodcuts.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> Prohemio del prestante Oratore & poeta Misser Francesco philelpho al illustrissimo & inuictissimo principe Philippo Maria Anglo Duca de Milano circa la interpretatione per lui sopra gli sonetti & canzone de misser Francescho Petrarcha facta

Internal Description

First part
 
A1r: index of notable matters for RVF;
 
A1v: Filelfo’s dedicatory letter to Filippo Maria Visconti;
 
A2r-N5v: RVF 1-135 with Filelfo’s commentary, followed by RVF 136 with Filelfo’s and Squarciafico’s commentaries, followed by RVF 137-366 with Squarciafico’s commentary. H1v: explicit mention of the fact that the commentator changes: ‘SEGVITA LA INTERPRETATIONE DI HYERONIMO SQuARZAFICO ALEXANDRINO SOPRA EL RESTO DELLA PRESENTE OPERA’;
 
N5v: register and colophon: Finisse gli sonetti di Misser Francescho Petrarcha coreti & castigati per me[sser] Hieronymo Centone Padouano Impressi i[n] Uenetia per Piero Veroneso nel M.CCCC.LXXXXII.Adi Primo.de Aprile Regnante lo Inclito & glorioso principe Augustino Barbadico.
 
Second part
 
aa1r-aa1v: blank;
 
aa2r-aa6v: index of notable matters for the Triumphi;
 
aa6v-aa7r: Ilicino’s dedicatory letter to Borso d’Este;
 
aa7r-aa8r: Ilicino’s prologue to his commentary;
 
a1r-q8r: Triumphi with Ilicino’s commentary; each triumph is preceded by a full-page woodcut: Triumphus Amoris (aa8v), Pudicitie (e2v), Mortis (f5v), Fame (h4v), Temporis (o6v), Eternitatis (p7v);
 
tq8r: register and colophon: Finit Petrarca nup[er] su[m]ma dilige[n]tia a reuere[n]do. p[atre]. ordinis minor[um] mag[ist]ro gabriele bruno ueneto terre sa[n]ctae mi[ni]stro eme[n]datus a[n]no d[omi]ni.1491.die.10.maii;
 
q8v: blank.

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