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[RVF and Triumphi with Bruni’s life of Petrarch and index]

Overview

Place of Publication

Venice
Italy

Date of Publication
1482
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi

Description

Physical Description: Format

folio; *6, a9, b8, c6, d-m8, n-o6, p-q8, r9, s8; [142] fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; Petrarch’s poems in roman type, printed with one verse per line, and prose texts; no printed numbering.

Title Page

<inc> A piedi colli della bella vesta a Ca. ii

Internal Description

First part
 
*1r-*2r: blank;
 
*2v-a1r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
a1r-a1v: index of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance;
 
a1v: Petrarch’s note on Laura;
 
a2r-o6v: RVF;
 
o6v: colophon: FRANCISCI PETRARCAE POETAE EXCELLENTISSIMI RERVM VVULGARVM FRAGMENTA EXPLICIVNT;
 
Second part
 
p1r-s4v: Triumphi;
 
s4v: colophon: FRANCISCI PETRALGAE [sic] POETAE EXCELLENTISSIMI TRIVMPHI EXPLICIVNT;
 
s5r-s7v: [Bruni’s] life of Petrarch (<inc> Francesco Petrarcha huomo di grande ingegno & no[n] di me[n] uirtu naque i[n] arezo nel borgo de lorto; <exp> Di che morto il Petrarcha le muse sue ritene e quasi dheredita fu successore Rimaseno ado[n]che al bochaccio & in lui risedete la fama de poeticci studii e fu successione anchora nel te[m]po pero che quando el Petrarcha mori era il bochaccio diminor eta di lui de anni.ix.& cosi per successione andorono le muse. Finis VITE. F[rancisci] P[etrarce]);
 
s7v-s8r: two sonnets in praise of Petrarch (‘Si drento del mio Cor depinto porto’ and ‘O felice auctore secunda fama’);
 
s8r: colophon: Francisci petrarcae laureati poetae nec non secretarii apostolici benemeriti. Rerum uulgariu[m] Liber foeliciter absolutus est Venetiis per Magistrum Philippum Venetum de eo benemeritum. FINIS. M.CCCC.LXXXII. DIE XIII;
 
s8v: blank.

Copy Seen

Location

Cornell University Library
Ithaca, NY
United States

Shelfmark
Petrarch PQ4476 .A82++
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Location

John Rylands Library
Manchester
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Incunable Collection 18313
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

The John Rylands Library copy does not have fols. s5-s8; but it has illustrated or hand-coloured initials for each RVF poem and two rectangular-box illuminations (at the bottom of the opening pages of both RVF [fol. a2r] and Triumphi [fol. p1r]): one with a coat of arms (upper part red, bottom part vertical blue and white stripes) encircled by a wreath with an angel at each side and in a countryside settings; and the other with a blindfolded cupid again in countryside (the cupid is in a circle around which are decorative elements: a vase with some flowers surmounted by the head of a cherub).
 
In the Cornell copy, fols. *1 and *2 are missing. Some handwritten marginal annotations (by Calisto di Piazza da Lodi [1500-1561]), mostly give lists of numbers (apparently unrelated to Petrarch), refer to debts and credits, and include texts unrelated to Petrarch. There are also nine marginal drawings in brown crayon (by Calisto di Piazza da Lodi – all seem unrelated to Petrarch) at fols. b6v, e3v, e6v, f1v, h7v, k8v, p5v, q1v, and s6v (see Dutschke 1986, pp. 113-114). Five smaller fols. with some notes by Calisto di Piazza (unrelated to Petrarch) are bound within the edition too, after fols. e3v, e6v, h7v, p5v, and q1v (on these notes, see Dutschke 1986, pp. 113-114).

Bibliography

Ullman 1964, 451; Dutschke 1986, 113-114