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Le cose volgari di Francesco Petrarcha

Overview

Place of Publication

Florence
Italy

Printer
Date of Publication
1510
Creator
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi

Description

Physical Description: Format

8°; a-z8, A8; 192 fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

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

Title Page

LE COSE VOLGARI | DI MESSER | FRANCESCO PETRARCHA

Internal Description

a1r: title page;
 
a1v: SONETTI ET CANZONI DI MES | ser Francesco Petrarcha in uita di Ma | donna LAVRA;
 
a1v: Francesco Alfieri’s address to readers (‘Franc. Alph. Lect. Sal.’), followed by Francesco Alfieri’s elegiac distich (‘Perlege, quicunq[ue] es, Francisci scripta Petrarcae | nomine tantisono nobilitata Suo’);
 
a2r-n3v: RVF 1-263;
 
n3v: SONETTI ET CANZONI | DI MESSER | FRANCESCO PETRARCHA | IN MORTE | DI MADONNA LAVRA;
 
n4r-s5r: RVF 264-366;
 
s5v: TRIOMPHI | DI MESSER | FRANCESCO | PETRARCHA;
 
s6r-z5v: Triumphi;
 
z5v: colophon: Impresso in Firenze a petitione di Philippo di Giunta Fiorentino, nel Anno Mille.D.X. adi XVII di Agosto et nuouamente riueduto, Deo gratias;
 
z6r-z8r: Petrarch’s disperse (canzone ‘Quel cha nostra natura in se piu degno’, canzone [actually ballad] ‘Noua bellezza in habito gentile’);
 
z8v: blank;
 
A1r-A7v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
A7v: index of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance;
 
A8r-A8v: blank.

 
Notes: this edition seems to be an almost exact reprint of the 1504 Giunta edition.

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