Overview
Biblioteca Universitaria
Bologna
Italy
RVF, Triumphi
Description
272x210 mm; I + 203 + IV fols.
paper; sixteenth-century hand; single lines or small sections of Petrarch’s poems set in a central block with commentary distributed across the page beneath either single lines or sections of text. The left-hand margin provides a number for each of Anastagi’s comments positioned next to the relevant quotation of Petrarch’s verse; quotations from other authors are signaled by their names.
I Giorni Estiui
fols. 1r-190r: Gregorio Anastagi’s commentary to RVF and Triumphi (‘I Giorni Estiui Di Gregorio A[⎯]stagi’; <inc> Mutar consiglio per nuoua occasione dic[⎯]si esser [⎯] prudente: però hauerlo à gli anni passati a gli anni passati fatto [⎯]ro scriuere sopra ’l Petrarca in maniera di Ge[⎯] et di Macrobio, introducendo terze persone à parla[⎯], e trouandomi hoggi per mala sorte abandonato dall[⎯] luce degli occhi, cosa carissima all’huomo, mi cred[⎯] esser bene per minor fat[⎯] [⎯]ocedere scriuen[⎯] in maniera di Seruio e di T[⎯]o Donato; <exp> Verg[ili]o ‘Quaue hunc tam barbara morem Permittit patria? hospitio prohibemur arenae’ I Eneid[e]. ‘Si tanta (inquit) sunt premia uictis Et te lapsor[um] miseret, qua[e] munera Niso Digna dabis, primam merui, qui laudem corona[m]?’ 5 Eneid[e]);
fol. 190v: blank;
fol. 191r: concluding paragraph of Anastagi’s commentary (<inc> Si truova gli espositori di Vergilio essere stati molti, e molti, De’ quali parte hoggi si leggono, e parte son ricordati dalle memorie di buoni Autori; <exp> Ma non ui sgomentati [sic] gioueni, anzi adoperate l’ingegno uostro, et rendetevi sicurissimi, che per uoi ancora ci rimane campo libero da correre mille arringhi);
fol. 191r: colophon: Il fine. Gregorio Anastagi;
fol. 191v: blank;
fols. 192r-203v: index of those lines of RVF poems and of the capitoli of the Triumphi commented upon by Anastagi (under each letter of the alphabet, lines are listed in order of appearance in the commentary).
Material Copy
Biblioteca Universitaria
Bologna
Italy
Anastagi’s commentary is structured as a series of annotations (numbered from 1 to 592) on RVF and Triumphi. These annotations include: 1) presenting, in quotations beneath lines from Petrarch, parallel references to other (mostly classical) authors; 2) quotations from Petrarch’s vernacular works, particularly to illustrate how he developed themes; 3) thematic analysis with notes on classical and religious authorities; 4) paraphrases or explanations of some passages.
At fol. 153r the transition from RVF to Triumphi is not indicated by Anastagi; similarly, the sequence of annotations continues.
Ms. B 24 of the Biblioteca Augusta of Perugia contains another autograph copy of the same work.
CPR, 11