Il Petrarca con l’espositione d’Alessandro Vellutello

8°; A-Z⁸, AA-CC⁸; 208 fols.

paper; Petrarch’s poems and commentary in roman type; printed numbering; most of Petrarch’s poems set on left (or on the right) in small block, with commentary distributed on three sides; some other Petrarch’s poems set on left in a sequence of blocks, with commentary distributed in single column on right.

IL PETRARCA | CON L’ESPOSITIONE | D’ALESSANDRO VELLVTELLO | e con piu vtili cose in diuersi luoghi di | quella nouissimamente da | lui aggiunte || [printer’s mark] || IN VINEGIA AL SEGNO DI | ERASMO M D XXXXI

A1r: title page;
 
A1v: blank;
 
A2r-A3v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, sonnets and canzoni are listed separately in order of appearance) (‘Tavola de son[etti] et de le canz[oni] del Pet[rarca]’);
 
A4r-A5v: Vellutello’s life of Petrarch (‘Vita e costumi del poeta’);
 
A6r-A8v: Vellutello’s life of Laura (‘Origine di Madonna Laura’);
 
A8v: Vellutello’s discussion of how RVF is divided into three parts (‘Divisione de son[etti] e de le canz[oni] del Petrarcha in tre parti’): those poems written during Laura’s life (‘tutti quelli, che veramente in vita di M[adonna] L[aura] si conoscono per la loro sententia da lui essere stati scritti, et che de suoi felici et infelici amorosi effetti et accidenti trattano, o che in quelli del suo amoroso errore mostra dolersi, o da esso errore desiderare di potersi rimovere, o d’essersi rimosso’), those composed after Laura’s death and on this theme (‘tutti quelli, che dopo la morte di lei, di tal morte propriamente, o per circoscrittione, o in altra forma parlano’), and all those devoted to any other person or theme than Laura;
 
B1r-N7v: first part of RVF with Vellutello’s commentary;
 
N8r-S5r: second part of RVF (beginning with RVF 267) with Vellutello’s commentary;
 
S5v-X5v: third part of RVF (beginning with RVF 128) with Vellutello’s commentary;
 
X6r: poems addressed to Petrarch by Muzio Stramazzo da Perugia (‘La santa fiamma de la qual son priue’), Giacomo Colonna (‘Se le parti del corpo mio distrutte’), Geri Gianfigliazzi (‘Messer Francesco, chi d’amor sospira’), and Giovanni Dondi dall’Orologio (‘Io n[on] so be[n] s’io vedo q[ue]l, ch’io veggio’), each poem followed by the first line of Petrarch’s reply accompanied by the page number where the poem is printed;
 
X6v: Vellutello’s prologue to his commentary on the Triumphi (‘Ales[sandro] Vellut[ello] sopra i trio[nfi] del Pet[rarca]’);
 
X6v: Vellutello’s overview of the content of the Triumphi (‘Soggetto de triomphi del poeta’);
 
X7r-CC8v: Triumphi with Vellutello’s commentary;
 
CC8v: colophon: In Vinegia per Comin de Trino de Monferrato a instantia de Vicenzo Vaugris e Zuane di Francesii Compagni ne l’anno del Signore. M. D. XXXXI.