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

Overview

Place of Publication

Milan
Italy

Printer
Date of Publication
1494
Creator
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

Triumphi, RVF

Editor
Dedicatee

Description

Physical Description: Format

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

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; Petrarch’s poems and commentary in roman type; printed numbering; some of Petrarch’s poems set on left 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> PER informatione & dechiaratione di questa tabula questo sie lo ordi[n]e suo che chi uuol trouare qualche cosa co[n]tenuta i[n] dicta tabula guardi i[n] fine della linea de la cosa chel cerca & quello numero li notato significa el numero de le carte doue e la cosa cercata

Internal Description

First 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;
 
aa8v-q8r: Triumphi with Ilicino’s commentary; each triumph is preceded by a full-page woodcut: Triumphus Amoris (118v), Pudicitie (e2v), Mortis (f5v), Fame (h4v), Temporis (o6v), Eternitatis (p7v);
 
q8r: register and colophon: Finit Petrarca nup[er] su[m]ma diligentia ac maxi[m]o studio eme[n]datus Mediola[n]i a[n] d[omi]ni.i494.die.io.Februarii;
 
q8v: blank;
 
Second 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. H2r: 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 Francesco Petrarca. Impressi in Milano per Magistro Vlderico Scinzenzeler Nel anno del signore.M.CCCC.LXXXXIIII.A di.xxyi.de marzo;
 
N6r: Francesco Tanzi Cornigero’s address to readers (‘Presbyter Franciscus Tantius Corniger lectori salutem’);
 
N6v: blank.

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