Overview
Venice
Italy
RVF 1-2
Description
12o; A-F12, G6; 154, [2] pp.
paper; Petrarch’s poems and text of commentary in italic type; printed numbering; single lines or small sections of Petrarch’s poems set in central blocks, with prose text of commentary distributed across the page beneath each of them.
IL SECONDO | TOMO DELL’OPERE | DI M[ESSER] GIVLIO CAMILLO | DELMINIO, CIOE, | La Topica, ouero dell’Elocutione. | Discorso sopra l’Idee di Hermogene, | La Grammatica, | Espositione sopra il primo & secondo | Sonetto del Petrarca. | NVOVAMENTE DATO IN LVCE. | [printer’s mark] | IN VENETIA M D LXXXIIII. |Appresso Fabio, & Agostino Zoppini Fratelli.
A1r: title page;
A1v: blank;
A2r: Francesco Patrizi’s address to readers and dedication to Sertorio di Collalto (‘A i lettori’);
A2v: blank;
A3r-C12v: Giulio Camillo’s Topica (‘La topica, overo della Elocvtione, di m[esser] Givlio Camillo. Delminio’);
D1r-D2v: Patrizi’s dedicatory letter to Sertorio di Collalto with some notes on Camillo’s life and works (‘Al molto illvstre s[ignor] conte Sertorio da Collalto’);
D3r-E1v: Camillo’s Discourse on Hermogenes (‘Discorso di m[esser] Givlio Camillo. Sopra Hermogene’);
E2r-E9v: Camillo’s commentary on RVF 1 (‘Espositione di m[esser] Givlio Cam[illo] Delminio. Sopra ’l primo & secondo sonetto del Petrarca’; <inc of commentary after RVF 1> ‘Voi’, questa uoce posta nel uocatiuo, senza essere appoggiata à uerbo ha tenuto faticati molti; <exp> Et dalla poca durabilità della eccellente bellezza disse alle 99. Ma che? uien tardo, & subito ua uia. Ma perche dicesse uien tardo, diremo al suo luogo’);
E9v: colophon: Il fine della espositione sopra il primo sonetto del Petrarca;
E10r-F1v: Camillo’s commentary on RVF 2 (‘Espositione di m[esser] Givlio Cam[illo] Delminio. Sopra ’l secondo sonetto del Petrarca’; <inc of commentary after RVF 2> Qvesta è un’altra maniera di scusarsi. Et è uenuta al Petrarca si ben fatta; <exp> Doue è una bella relatione. Ma non di questa forza);
F1v: colophon: Il fine della espositione sopra il secondo sonetto del Petrarca;
F2r-G3r: Camillo’s Grammatica (‘Grammatica di m[esser] Givlio Camillo Delminio’);
G3v-G4r: Camillo’s letter to Antonio Altano (‘Al s[ignor] Antonio Altano. Conte di Salvarolo’);
G4v-G5r: Camillo’s first letter to Bernardino Fratina (‘Al sig[nor] Bernardino Fratina’);
G5v: Camillo’s second letter to Bernardino Fratina (‘Al sig[nor] Bernardino Fratina’);
G6r-G6v: blank.
Copy Seen
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
Venice
Italy
Camillo’s commentary provides 1) grammatical and rhetorical observations; 2) Petrarchan loci paralleli and quotations of classical authors, such as Horace and Vergil, and religious authors, such as Paul the Apostole; 3) paraphrases of passages or explanations of the meaning of some words; 4) philosophical readings based on references to Porphyry, Plato, and Aristotle.
RVF 1 and 2 are quoted in full at fols. E2r-E2v and E10r-E10v respectively.
The first edition of the Secondo tomo of Camillo’s works, which is added to his Tutte le opere, was printed by Giolito and edited by Lodovico Dolce and Francesco Patrizi in 1552. Camillo’s collections of works have been printed several times in the second half of the sixteenth century in different and combined forms (i.e. only the first or the second part; a combination of the first and the second part from different years). For the purpose of clarity, the database includes all the different editions of the Secondo tomo of Camillo’s works, namely the volume containing his commentaries on Petrarch.
The copy held at the Marciana library is bound with Giulio Camillo’s L’opere (Venice: Agostino and Fabio Zoppini, 1584).
Grohovaz 1987, 340