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[Triumphi with Pseudo-Filelfo’s commentary]

Overview

Place of Publication

Parma
Italy

Date of Publication
1473
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, and Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

4°; no signature [but: a-l10, m12]; [122] fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; Petrarch’s poems and commentary in roman type; no printed numbering; single lines or small sections of Petrarch’s poems set on left, with commentary distributed across the page beneath either every single line or section of text

Title Page

<inc> INCOMINCIA EL LIBRO CHIAMATO TRIOMPHO DAMORE FACTO: E COMPOSTO PER LO ExCELLENTISSIMO: E Su[m]MO POETA MISER FRANCESCO PETRARCHA DA FIORe[n]za: p[er] amor di Madona Laura

Internal Description

fol. 1r: introductory paragraph of Pseudo-Filelfo’s commentary (<inc> Incomincia el libro chiamato tromphi damore facto: e composto per lo excellentissimo: e su[m]mo poeta miser Francesco Petrarcha dafiore[n]za: p[er] amor di Madona Laura; <exp> cossi homini comme donne: hanno triumphato ponendo in alchuni di quelli la lor felicita);
 
fols. 1r-2v: Pseudo-Filelfo’s prologue to his commentary (<inc> Lo primo triomfo: ouero felicita fu i[n] hauere possessione: ouero contentamento ne lo amore de la sua inamorata; <exp> del qual suo iudicio i[n] lo sexto triompho se fara me[n]tione);
 
fols. 3r-122v: Triumphus Amoris I, Amoris III.1-108, Amoris IV.13-102, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I.19-120, Mortis II, Fame Ia.1-59 with Pseudo-Filelfo’s commentary (<inc of commentary> Al primo trio[n]pho de lo amore: cioe de esso Cupido dice lo comentatore: ouero glosatore sia: i[n[]come[n]za[n]do sopra del testo delauctore: che dice cossi circa il principio di questo primo capitulo e danotare; <exp of commentary > e questi son quegli che dice lauctore che esse[n]do de uil generatione p[er] lor uirtute ne larme furono facti alti: e ge[n]tili. E qui fa fine);
 
fol. 122v: four-line Latin poem in elegiac couplets (<inc> Quae condam totu[m] lector quesita p[er] orbem; <exp> Haec nam dedalicus posuit Portilia Parmae | Andreas: patriae gloria magna suae);
 
fol. 122v: colophon: Pridie Nonas Martii. M. cccclxxiii.

Copy Seen

Location

Cornell University Library
Ithaca, NY
United States

Shelfmark
Petrarch PQ4477 .A3 1473 +
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Location

John Rylands Library
Manchester
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Incunable Collection 18977
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

In the Cornell copy, decorated initials in gold for the beginning of each Triumphus and each subsequent capitolo; at fol. 1r [a1r] is an architectural frame with a coat of arms in the bottom part of the fol.