Bologna, Biblioteca comunale dell’Archiginnasio, B. 463

Negri’s lecture provides an in-depth account of Petrarch’s poetry. In the premise of his lecture, Negri deals with the definition and history of poetry, making references to Aristotelian and Horatian theories and to the furor poeticus. In analyzing Petrarch’s poetry, Negri praises his way of continuously revising his lines and provides several samples of Petrarch’s corrections accompanied by his Latin annotations. The quotation of these passages clearly shows that Negri had access to some autograph material by Petrarch (likely ms. Vat. Lat. 3196 of the Vatican Library). In the second part of the lecture, Negri analyzes and comments on Trifon Gabriele’s and Pietro Bembo’s judgements on Petrarch, quoting numerous lines from Petrarch’s vernacular poems. In the last part of the lecture, Negri develops and completes with his own lines a preliminary version of Triumphus Fame III, whose incipit is ‘Poiché la bella e gloriosa donna’.