Overview
Milan
Italy
Triumphi, RVF
Description
folio; aa8, a-q8; A-M8, N6; [8], 128, 102 fols.
paper; Petrarch’s poems and commentaries 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.
<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
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 (aa8v), Pudicitie (e2v), Mortis (f5v), Fame (h4v), Temporis (o6v), Eternitatis (p7v);
q8r: register;
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 SQVARZAFICO ALEXANDRINO SOPRA EL RESTO DELLA PRESENTE OPERA’;
N5v: register and colophon: Finisse gli Sonetti & Canzone di Misser Francesco Petrarcha coreti & castigati per il Basilico Impressi i[n] Milano per. Antonio. Zaroto. Parmense nel.M.CCCC.Lxxxxiiii.A.Di Primo.di Augusto;
N6r-N6v: blank.
Copy Seen
British Library
London
United Kingdom
In the British Library copy, the woodcuts of the Triumphi are partially water-coloured (mainly the skies and the lawns).