Parma, Biblioteca Palatina, Parm. 1636

This ms. was composed for philological purposes. It limits the collection of texts to those compositions and capitoli that display varianti d’autore attributed to Petrarch. The annotator transcribes them next to the underlined lines of Petrarch’s poems. Variant readings of RVF (with the exception of RVF 265), Triumphus Eternitatis and part of Triumphus Amoris III are taken from ms. Vat. Lat. 3196 of the Vatican Library. The annotator was also in possession of another, presumably later, autograph ms. by Petrarch with fewer corrections (‘manco liture’). From this second ms. he collected variant readings for Triumphus Amoris I and part of Triumphus Amoris III. At fol. 1r, the annotator describes the content of the ms. Parm. 1636 with these words: ‘Transcripta in ordine post multos et multos annos, quibusdam mutatis 1356 Iouis in uesperis, 10 Nouembris Mediolanj’. Similarly, a brief description of the ms. is offered by a librarian in the attached piece of paper placed in the internal flyleaf: ‘PETRARCA (Francesco) Rime diverse, e Trionfi trascritti come si trovano negli originali dell’Autore. colle correzioni, e cangiamenti fatti dallo stesso’. According to Frasso (1984b, 272), this ms. was prepared in Pietro Bembo’s entourage to be offered to cardinal Marcello Cervini (future pope Marcellus II). Frasso speculates that Antonio Anselmi, who was Bembo’s amanuensis, transcribed the ms.