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[Anonymous commentary on a selection of RVF poems and Triumphi]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City

Shelfmark
Vat. Lat. 4786
Date
fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia, Mortis Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

289x167 mm; II + 125 + III fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; two humanistic scripts, one for the text and one for the commentary respectively; Petrarch’s poems set on left in a sequence of blocks, with commentary distributed in single column on right and occasionally at the bottom of the fol.

Title Page

<inc> Voi chascoltate in rime sp[ar]se ilsuono

Internal Description

fols. 1r-64v: RVF 1-263 (indicated as 229) with anonymous commentary on a selection of poems;
 
fol. 65r-65v: blank;
 
fols. 66r-93r: RVF 264-366;
 
fol. 93r: colophon: FININIS [sic]. Gentile spirto ilquale cupido disapere congioco[n]dita leggendo ilfine ai cercho diquesta opera leggiadra benche alpresente forse altra cura tistringa dipartire questi brieui epochi uersi affectuasamente ti preghiamo che arrestatoti alquanto ad intellecto gli guardi et quanto inessi sicontenga condiligençia consideri poi \ si \ che oçioso unaltra uolta no[n]minor desiderio allegger questa opera tinuiti. Queste rime adlicteram furono sumpte dal originale delpetrarcha et con quello fedelme[n]te scontrate. del quale atua informatione sicome difelice et richo thesoro rimase herede ilmagnanimo et gradito signore dipadoua ilquale dipoi persua humanita come gratioso signore sidegno mandarlo per dono singulare et gra[n]de alfacundissimo poeta. Mess[er] Coluccio Salutati cancellieri [sic] inquetempi della magnifica comunita difirençe, Questo partendoti amico karo assa [sic] molesto cera che tu non lo douessi o noluolessi sapere. Vasano;
 
fols. 93v-94v: blank;
 
fols. 95r-125r: Triumphi (‘francisci petrarce poete florentini triumphoru[m] liber unicus. incipiti [sic] et inprimis triumphus amoris I[n]c[ipit] f[e]l[icit]e[r]’; order: Mortis II, Fame Ia, Amoris II, Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis; Eternitatis) with blank fols. 117v-118r;
 
fol. 125r: colophon: FINIS;
 
fol. 125v: blank.

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City

Shelfmark
Vat. Lat. 4786
Copy seen by
Lorenzo
Sacchini
Notes

The commentary covers most of poems within RVF 1-72 and subsequently only occasional glosses are provided up until RVF 125. The comments are mostly explanatory and focus in particular on the literal sense of the poems. The commentator also emphasizes moments of Petrarch’s life and the development of the love story with Laura. The anonymous author shows an intense interest in the journeys undertaken by Petrarch and in his personal relationships with men of power.

Bibliography

Vattasso 1909, 49-50
 
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Guerrini Ferri 1986a, 173; Guerrini Ferri 2006, 182, 211