Triomphi di Messer Francesco Petrarcha

8°; a-m⁴; [48] fols.

paper; Petrarch’s poems in roman type, printed with one verse per line with printed annotations in the margins; no printed numbering; six full-page woodcuts and title within architectural frame.

TRIOMPHI DI MESSER | FRANCESCO PE | TRARCHA POE | TA FIOREN | TINO

a1r: title page;
 
a1v-m2r: Triumphi; each triumph is preceded by a full-page woodcut: Triumphus Amoris (a1v), Pudicitie (d3v), Mortis (e4r), Fame (g4r), Temporis (k3v), Eternitatis (l3r). Marginal annotations printed throughout the edition include: brief summaries (e.g. ‘Laude di Laura’, ‘Laude di se medesimo quando fu Laureato’, ‘Affecti degli innamorati’), names of characters, speakers, and addressees (e.g., ‘Parole della ombra al poeta’, ‘Risposta di Laura’, ‘Parole del Poeta’, ‘il poeta a Sofonisba’), rhetorical elements (e.g., ‘bel decto’, ‘sententia bella’, ‘comparatione’), and moralizing sententiae (‘Notate huomini mortali’);
 
m2r-m4v: Bruni’s life of Petrarch;
 
m4v: colophon: Finiscono Itrio[m]phi di.M.F.Petrarcha insieme con lauita sua co[n] somma dilige[n]tia correcti & imp[re]ssi i[n] Fire[n]ze p[er] Bernardo Zucchetta apetitio[n]e di Fra[n]cesco di Iacopo cartolaio uocato ilco[n]te Adi .xxvii.Dagosto .M.ccccc.xv.