[RVF and Triumphi with Bruni’s life of Petrarch]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Palatina
Parma
Italy

Shelfmark
Parm. 1648
Creator
Date
sixteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

228x170 mm; II + 182 + I fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose text; one rectangular-box illumination, two architectural frames, historiated and decorated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> Voi chascoltate in rime sparse il sono

Internal Description

fols. 1r-137r: RVF;
 
fol. 137r: colophon: Finis;
 
fols. 137v-138v: blank;
 
fols. 139r-175v: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis); before Triumphus Amoris I is a rectangular-box illumination representing the triumph (fol. 139r);
 
fol. 175v: colophon: Finis;
 
fol. 176r: blank;
 
fol. 176v: a note by A. Pezzana (for the note’s attribution, see Boselli 1935, 250) (‘La vita seguente fu scritta da Leonardo Aretino’);
 
fols. 177r-182v: [Bruni’s] life of Petrarch (‘Francisci Petrarche poete clarissimi vita feliciter incipit’, <inc> Francescho Petrarcha huomo digrande ingegnio et non di minor uirtu; <exp> maxime perche lauirtu e certa et la corona tal uolta per lieue giudicio cosi ha [sic] chi non merita come achi merita dare sipuo).

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Palatina
Parma
Italy

Shelfmark
Parm. 1648
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Scattered marginal annotations by the same and different hands either add a few missing words, or indicate the names of two characters (‘Helena’ and ‘Lucretia’) mentioned in RVF 260 with paraphrases (fol. 89r).
 
RVF 114 (fol. 46r), 136 (fol. 60v), and 138 (fol. 61r) [but not RVF 137] are erased and not legible any more.
 
Historiated initials in gold (with a half-bust portrait of Petrarch holding a book) for RVF
 
1 (fol. 1r) and Triumphus Amoris I (fol. 139r); decorated initials in gold for RVF 2 (fol. 1r), Triumphus Pudicitie (fol. 151r), Mortis I (fol. 154v), Fame I (fol. 163v), Temporis (fol. 170v), Eternitatis (fol. 173r), and Bruni’s life of Petrarch (fol. 177r); at fols. 1r and 139r is an architectural frame; at the bottom of fol. 1r is a coat of arms.

Bibliography

Boselli 1935, 249-50; CPR, 156-57; Iter, II, 42a
 
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Hankins 1997

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