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Il Petrarcha

Overview

Place of Publication

Venice
Italy

Date of Publication
c. 1522
Creator
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

8°; a-z8-A-C8; 183, [25] fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; Petrarch’s poems in italic type, printed with one verse per line; printed numbering

Title Page

IL PETRARCHA

Internal Description

a1r: title page;
 
a1v-a2r: address to readers (‘A gli lettori’);
 
a2v: SONETTI ET CANZONI | DI MESSER | FRANCESCO PETRARCHA | IN VITA | DI MADONNA LAVRA;
 
a3r-n7v: RVF 1-266;
 
n7v: SONETTI ET CANZONI | DI MESSER | FRANCESCO PETRARCHA | IN MORTE | DI MADONNA LAVRA;
 
n8r-s6r: RVF 267-366;
 
s6v-s8r: blank;
 
s8v: TRIOMPHI | DI MESSER | FRANCESCO | PETRARCHA;
 
t1r-z7v: Triumphi;
 
z8r-z8v: blank;
 
A1r-A3v: Manutius’s address to readers (‘Aldo agli lettori’);
 
A4r-B2v: Triumphus Fame Ia (‘Nel cor pien d’amarissima dolcezza’), followed by Petrarch’s disperse (canzone ‘Quel c’ha nostra natura in se piu degno’, sonnets ‘Anima doue sei? ch’ad hora ad hora’, ‘Ingegno usato alle question profonde’, ‘Stato foss’io, quando la uidi prima’, ‘In ira a i cieli, al mondo, & alla gente’, ‘Se sotto legge Amor uiuesse quella’, ‘Lasso com’io fui mal proueduto’, ‘Quella, che ’l giouenil mio cor auinse’);
 
B2v-B4r: poems addressed to Petrarch by Geri Gianfigliazzi (‘Messer Francesco chi d’amor sospira’), Giovanni Dondi dall’Orologio (‘Io non so ben s’io uedo quel, chi’o ueggio’), Sennuccio del Bene (‘Oltra l’usato modo si regira’), Giacomo Colonna (‘Se le parti del corpo mio destrutte’), each poem followed by the first line of Petrarch’s reply accompanied by the page number where the poem is printed;
 
B4r-B7v: three canzoni by Guido Cavalcanti (‘Donnami prega: perche uoglio dire’), Dante Alighieri (‘Cosi nel mio parlar uoglio esser aspro’), and Cino da Pistoia (‘La dolce uista, e ’l bel guardo soaue’);
 
B8r-B8v: blank;
 
C1r-C7v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
C7v: index of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance;
 
C8r-C8v: blank.
 
Notes: this edition might well be a pirate copy of the Manutius 1521 edition. See Renouard 1834, 321-22.

Copy Seen

Location

John Rylands Library
Manchester
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Aldine Collection 206.7(1) (17380)
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Location

John Rylands Library
Manchester
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Aldine Collection 206.7(2) (21527)
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Location

John Rylands Library
Manchester
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Aldine Collection 206.7(3) (R213547)
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Location

Biblioteca Civica
Padua
Italy

Shelfmark
CP.0261
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

The first John Rylands Library copy (Aldine Collection 206.7[1]) is on vellum.
 
In the second John Rylands Library copy (Aldine Collection 206.7[2]), there are a few handwritten maniculae on the margins of the texts.

Bibliography

Renouard 1834, 321-22
 
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Paccagnella 2013