Overview
Venice
Italy
Triumphi, RVF
Description
folio; aa8, a-q8; A-M8, N6; [8], 128, 102 fols.
paper; Petrarch’s poems and commentary in roman type; printed numbering; some of Petrarch’s poems set on left in small block, with commentary distributed on three sides; some other of Petrarch’s poems set on both left and right in two horizontally aligned blocks, with commentary distributed across the page beneath each set of two blocks; six full-page woodcuts.
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First part
aa1r-aa1v: blank;
aa2r-aa6v: index of notable matters for the Triumphi;
aa6v-aa7r: Ilicino’s dedicatory letter to Borso d’Este;
aa7r-aa8r: Ilicino’s prologue to his commentary;
aa8v-q8v: Triumphi with Ilicino’s commentary; each triumph is preceded by a full-page woodcut illustrating it: Triumphus Amoris (aa8v), Pudicitie (e2v), Mortis (f5v), Fame (h4v), Temporis (o6v), Eternitatis (p7v);
q8v: register and colophon: Finit Petrarcha nuper summa dilige[n]tia a reuerendo. P[atre]. ordinis minoru[m] magistro Gabriele bruno ueneto terrae sanctae ministro emendatus anno domini.M.cccc.lxxxxii.die.xii.Ianuarii;
Second Part
A1r: index of notable matters for RVF;
A1v: Filelfo’s dedicatory letter to Filippo Maria Visconti;
A2r-N5v: RVF 1-135 with Filelfo’s commentary, followed by RVF 136 with Filelfo’s and Squarciafico’s commentaries, followed by RVF 137-366 with Squarciafico’s commentary. H2r: explicit mention of the fact that the commentator changes: ‘SEGVITA la interpretatione di Hyeronimo Squarzafico Alexandrino sopra el resto della p[re]sente opera’;
N5v: register and colophon: Finisse gli sonetti di Misser Fra[n]cesco Petrarcha coreti & castigati p[er] me[sser] Hieronymo Centone Padouano. Impressi i[n] Venetia p[er] Piero de Zohane di quare[n]gi Bergamascho. Nel .M.CCCCLXXXXIIII. Adi.xvii.Zugno. Regnante lo inclito & glorioso principe Augustino Barbadico;
N6r-N6v: blank.
Copy Seen
British Library
London
United Kingdom
In the copy housed in Rome, Biblioteca nazionale centrale (see digital copy), fols. aa1 and k6 are missing.
In the British Library copy, fols. aa1r-aa7v are missing.