Triomphi Istoriati

8°; A-F⁸; [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 Francescho | PETRARCHA | Istoriati. | Con le Postille Et con la sua | Vita improsa [sic] vulgare | Nouamente | Coretti.

A1r: title page;
 
A1v-F3v: Triumphi; each triumph is preceded by a full-page woodcut: Triumphus Amoris (A1V), Pudicitie (B6v), Mortis (C2v), Fame (D2v), Temporis (E5v), Eternitatis (E8v). Marginal annotations printed throughout the edition include: brief summaries (e.g. ‘Laude di Laura’, ‘Laude di Scipione’, ‘Affecti degli innamorati’), names of characters, speakers, and addressees (e.g., ‘Risposta di Laura’, ‘Parole del Poeta’), rhetorical elements (e.g., ‘sententia’, ‘inuocatione’, ‘comparatione), and moralizing sententiae (‘Notate huomini mortali’);
 
F4r-F7v: Bruni’s life of Petrarch;
 
F8r: colophon: Finiscono I triomphi di.M[esser]F[rancesco] Petrarcha insieme con la sua uita, Nuouamente reuisti & emendati, Impressi in Venetia p[er] Nicolo ditto Zopino e Vi[n]cezo co[m]pagni, nel M.D.xxiiii. de Luio, followed by the printer’s mark [a seated bishop-saint];
 
F8v: blank.
 
Notes: this edition seems to be a very close reprint of the 1521 Zoppino edition.