Overview
Toscolano
Italy
RVF, Triumphi
Description
8°; a-z8, &8, A4; 178, [18] fols.
paper; Petrarch’s poems in italic type, printed with one verse per line; printed numbering
IL PETRARCHA
a1r: title page;
a1v: SONETTI ET CANZONI | DI MESSER | FRANCESCO PETRARCHA | IN VITA | DI MADONNA LAVRA;
a2r-n3v: RVF 1-263;
n3v: SONETTI ET CANZONI | DI MESSER | FRANCESCO PETRARCHA | IN MORTE | DI MADONNA LAVRA;
n4r-s5r: RVF 264-366;
s5r: TRIOMPHI DI. M. F. PE | TRARCHA. CAP. I. DEL | TRIOMP. D’AMORE;
s5r-z2v: Triumphi;
z3r-&1r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
&1v: index of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance;
&2r-&5v: three canzoni by Guido Cavalcanti (‘Donna mi prega: perche voglio dire’), Dante Alighieri (‘Cosi nel mio parlar voglio esser aspro’), and Cino da Pistoia (‘La dolce vista, el bel guardo soaue’);
&5v-&6v: poems addressed to Petrarch by Geri Gianfigliazzi (‘Messer Francesco chi d’amor sospira’), Giovanni Dondi dall’Orologio (‘Io non so ben s’io vedo quel, ch’io veggio’), 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;
&6r-A1v: Petrarch’s disperse (canzone ‘Quel c’ha nostra natura in se piu degno’; canzone [actually ballad] ‘Noua bellezza in habito gentile’; sonnet ‘Anima doue sei? Ch’adora ad hora’);
A1v-A2v: sonnets addressed to Petrarch by Giacopo di Garatori da Imola (‘O nouella Tarpea in cui s’asconde’) and Ser Dio ti salui di Pietro da Siena (‘Il bel occhio d’Apollo del cui sguardo’), each poem followed by full text of Petrarch’s reply sonnets (‘Ingegno vsato alle question profonde’ and ‘Se Phebo al primo amor non è bugiardo’ respectively);
A2v-A4r: Petrarch’s disperse (sonnets ‘Quella ghirlanda che la bella fronte’, ‘Se tuto fuss’io, quando la vidi prima’, ‘In ira a i cieli, al mondo, et alla gente’, ‘Se sotto legge Amor viuesse quella’, ‘Lasso com’io fui mal approueduto’, and ‘Quella ch’il giouenil mio cor auinse’);
A4r: register;
A4v: colophon: P. Alex. Pag. Benacenses. F. Bena. V. V.
Copy Seen
Bodleian Library
Oxford
United Kingdom
In the Oxford Library Online Catalogue this edition is dated to 1523: http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?fn=search&ct=search&initialSearch=true&mode=Basic&tab=local&indx=1&dum=true&srt=rank&vid=OXVU1&frbg=&tb=t&vl%28freeText0%29=Broxb.+23.21&scp.scps=scope%3A%28OX%29&vl%28516065169UI1%29=all_items&vl%281UIStartWith0%29=contains&vl%28254947567UI0%29=any&vl%28254947567UI0%29=title&vl%28254947567UI0%29=any
In the catalogue of the library of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini it is dated to 1515-1520, as in EDIT16:
http://polovea.sebina.it/SebinaOpac/Opac.do?q=Petrarca+1515+1520#1
Nuovo 1990