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[Triumphi with Bruni’s life of Petrarch]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Estense Universitaria
Modena
Italy

Shelfmark
ms. gamma H.6.20
Date
fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

Triumphi + Mortis Ia, Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

204x135 mm; II + I1 + 89 + I1 + IV fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper (except flyleaf I1 in parchment); cursive humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose texts.

Title Page

‘Francisci Petrarce Poetae clarissimi Triumphorum liber Feliciter incipit’

Internal Description

fols. 1r-53r: Triumphi (‘Francisci Petrarce Poetae clarissimi Triumphorum liber Feliciter incipit’; order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris II, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis; Eternitatis);
 
fol. 53r: colophon: Finis;
 
fol. 53v: blank;
 
fols. 54r-61v: Leonardo Bruni’s life of Petrarch (‘Incipit uita Francisci petrarce edita per Leonardum arretinum uirum clarissimum’; <inc> F[r]ancesco petrarca huomo digrande ingegno et non diminor uirtu; <exp> Lessere ilpetrarca insignito dicorona poetica & non dante, niente importa a questa comparatione, pero che molto piu e dastimare elmeritare corona, che hauerla ricevuta, maxime perche lauirtu e certa et la corona taluolta per lieue giuditio cosi a chi non lamerita, come achi lamerita dare sipuote);
 
fols. 61v-62r: Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘Infrascripta epistola inuenta fuit rome inhabitatione Petrarce et inquodam suo studiolo propria manu scripta’; <inc> AVRA [sic] proprijs uirtutibus illustris et meis longu[m] celebrata carminibus; <exp> inexpectatos rer[um] exitus acriter ac uiriliter cogitanti)’;
 
fol. 62v-63r: vernacular translation of Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘EL uulgare della decta epistola’; <inc> AVRA [sic] di proprie uirtu illustre et lungo tempo ne miei uersi confama honorata primamente agliocchi mapparse; <exp> le uane speranze et glincerti et uarij fini delle cose ripensando);
 
fol. 63r: colophon: Finis;
 
fol. 63r: three-line Latin epitaph for Petrarch: (‘Epitaphium Francisci Petrarce’; <inc> Frigida Francisci lapis hic tegit ossa petrarce; <exp> Fessaque iam terris celi requiescat in arce);
 
fol. 63v: blank;
 
Other contents:
 
fols. 64r-85r: Latin description of Rome (<inc> Vrbis Rom[a]e situs in Latio ad Tiberim amnem XVo ab infero mari; <exp> Tributa uero: nonterreis testis Romam p[re]ferebantus: sed p[er] qu[a]estores exigebantur);
 
fols. 85v-89v: blank.

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Estense Universitaria
Modena
Italy

Shelfmark
ms. gamma H.6.20
Copy seen by
Lorenzo
Sacchini
Bibliography

Iter, I, 392a