Overview
Florence
Italy
RVF
Description
4°; [*]2, A-M4; [4] + 92 pp.
paper; texts in roman type; prose text; printed numbering.
FRANCISCI | BOCCHII | ELOGIORVM, QVIBUS | Viri Doctissimi | NATI FLORENTIAE | DECORANTVR, Liber Primus. | [printer’s mark] | FLORENTIAE, | Apud Iuntas. M. D C V I I I I | Cum licentia Superiorum.
[*]1r: title page;
[*]1v: blank;
[*]2r-[*]2v: Bocchio’s dedicatory letter in Latin to Tommaso Ximenio (‘Perillustri, reverendissimoque domino, D. Thomae Ximenio, utriusque signaturae referendario sal.’);
A1r-A3v: Bocchio’s Latin preface to his work (‘Francisci Bocchii elogiorum, quibus viri doctissimi nati Florentiae decorantur. Liber primus’);
A4r-K1r: Bocchio’s Latin lives of St. Antonino, Aloisio Marsilio, Lupo da Castiglionchio, Aldobrandino Cavalcanti, Beatus Filippo Neri, Accorsio, Turrisiano Rustichelli, Marsilio Ficino, Donato Acciaiuoli, Pier Vettori, Leon Battista Alberti, Amerigo Vespucci, Francesco Guicciardini, Marcello Adriani, Vincenzo Borghini, Giovanni della Casa, Aloisio Alamanni, and Boccaccio;
K1v-K3v: Bocchio’s Latin life of Petrarch(‘Petrarca’);
K3v-M1v: Bocchio’s Latin life of Dante;
M1v: colophon Finis;
M2r: table of contents (‘Catalogus virorum illustrium, qui Florentia oriundi doctrinis clarverunt’);
M2v-M4v: blank.
Copy Seen
British Library
London
United Kingdom
Bocchio’s life offers a short biographical account that includes a few passages from Petrarch’s poems. Some paragraphs provide brief explanations on some RVF poems.