Overview
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy
Triumphi (except Temporis, Eternitatis) + Mortis Ia, Fame Ia
Description
330x230 mm; III + 278 + III fols.
paper; cursive humanistic script; 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.
<inc> PVBLIO Cornelio Scipione Jllustrissimo principe, nisuna magior victoria o piu singular triumpho
fol. 1r-1v: Bernardo Ilicino’s prefatory letter to [Borso d’Este] (<inc> PVBLIO Cornelio Scipione Jllustrissimo principe, nisuna magior victoria o piu singular triumpho; <exp> con uno arde[n]tissimo desiderio di quella sempre uedere & intendere felice nel nostro seculo & beata in futuro);
fols. 1v-5r: Ilicino’s prologue (<inc> VNIVERSALE sente[n]tia e & da gli Antichi & optimi exspositori approuata douersi ne i principij de Libri piu cose dilige[n]teme[n]te co[n]siderare; <exp> anchora manifesto La prese[n]te doctrina esser potissima [sic] parte di philosophia morale maximame[n]te utile alla uita ciuile & monastica);
fols. 5r-235r: Triumphi with Ilicino’s commentary (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia + Mortis I.4-172, Mortis II, Fame Ia.1-22 + first half of Fame Ia.23 + second half of Fame I.23 + Fame I.24-130, Fame II, Fame III.1-54; <inc> SEQVENDO hora quelle quattro cose partiale expedite leq[u]ale giudicamo esser necessarie allachyara intelligentia del Libro; <exp> arbitror dicere recte quidem arbitrat[i]s, q[u]or[um] quidem alter q[uo]d iuuenile dixisset ita facile soluteque uerbis uolebat, satis int[er]dum acutas, crebras, q[ui]dem ce[r]te sententias ut nihil posset ornatius e[ss]e nihil expeditius. La donde a raftione [sic] no[n] e stato);
fols. 235v-278v: blank.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy
Next to the text of the commentary are copied in red ink the names of authors quoted by Ilicino or those of the mythological and historical figures mentioned in Petrarch’s text.
CPR, 24