Overview
RVF 1
Description
8°; A8; 8 fols.
paper; Petrarch’s poem in italic type and commentary in roman type; Petrarch’s poem printed with one verse per line, and then each verse of Petrarch’s sonnet (with a roman number printed next to it corresponding to the number of the line) with commentary distributed across the page beneath each line; printed numbering.
NVOVA | SPOSITIONE | DELLE RIME | DI M. | FRANCESCO PETRARCA | ARGOMENTO | DEL SONETTO I [fol. A1r]
A1r: title page;
A1r-A1v: short prose text on the content of RVF 1 (‘Argomento del sonetto I’);
A1v: RVF 1;
A2r-A5v: Turchi’s thematic commentary of RVF 1 (‘Spositione’);
A6r-A7v: Turchi’s linguistic commentary of RVF 1 (‘Annotationi intorno alla lingua’);
A8r-A8v: list of passages that Turchi believes have been imitated by Petrarch in his sonnet (‘Imitationi’).
Copy Seen
Biblioteca nazionale centrale
Rome
Italy
In the Rome, Biblioteca nazionale centrale copy, only the first quire (fols. A1-A8) is present. This Roman copy seems to be the only surviving one of Turchi’s commentary.
A few marginal annotations (by a cursive late-sixteenth- or seventeenth-century hand) either write the name of the author of the commentary (fol. A1), or correct the text (e.g., fol. A2v), or else add either a few missing words (e.g., fol. A3v) or some lines (i.e. a Virgilian passage that Petrarch might have quoted in his sonnet, passage which was not mentioned among the ‘Imitationi’ in the printed pages [e.g., fol. A7v]).