Nuova spositione delle rime di M[esser] Francesco Petrarca

8°; A⁸; 16 pp.

paper; Petrarch’s poem in roman type and commentary in italic type; printed numbering; single words or lines of Petrarch’s sonnet set on left followed by commentary printed next to them in the same line and then distributed across the page beneath each of them.

NVOVA | SPOSITIONE | DELLE RIME | DI M. | FRANCESCO PETRARCA.

A1r: title page;
 
A1r-A1v: overview of RVF 1 (‘Argomento del sonetto I’);
 
A1v: RVF 1;
 
A2r-AA5v: commentary to RVF 1 (‘Spositione’);
 
A6r-A7v: linguistic analysis of RVF 1 (‘Annotationi intorno alla lingua’);
 
A8r-A8v: list of passages from Greek and Latin authors (both Christian and classical) imitated by Petrarch in RVF 1 (‘Imitationi’)
 
 

Notes: the copies of this edition housed in two Rome libraries (Biblioteca nazionale centrale and Angelica) have only 16 pp. like the British Library edition used to create this entry. The work might be considered as complete even though the content (focused just on RVF 1) does not correspond to the title.