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[Triumphi with Ilicino’s commentary and RVF with Filelfo’s and Squarciafico’s commentaries]

Overview

Place of Publication

Venice
Italy

Date of Publication
1497
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

Triumphi, RVF

Description

Physical Description: Format

folio; aa8, a-q8, A-L8, M10; [8], 128, 102 fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

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.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> PER informatione & dechiaratione di questa tabula questo sie lo ordine suo che chi uuole trouare qualche cosa contenuta in dicta tabula guardi in fine della linea de la chosa chel cerca & quello numero li notato significa el numero de le charte doue e la chosa cercata

Internal Description

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-q8r: Triumphi with Ilicino’s commentary; each triumph is preceded by a full-page woodcut: Triumphus Amoris (aa8v), Pudicitie (e2v), Mortis (f5v), Fame (h4v), Temporis (o6v), Eternitatis (p7v); q8r: register and colophon: Finit Petrarca nuper summa diligentia a reuerendo.p[atre].ordinis minorum magistro Gabriele bruno ueneto terre sanctae ministro emendatus Impressum Venetiis per Bartholameum de Zanis de Perresio anno domini.1497.die.xi.Iulius;
 
q8v: blank;
 
Second part
 
A1r: index of notable matters for RVF;
 
A1v: Filelfo’s dedicatory letter to Filippo Maria Visconti;
 
A2r-M9v: 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. G8r: explicit mention of the fact that the commentator changes: ‘SEGVITA la interpretatione di Hyeronimo Squarzafico Alexandrino sopra el resto della presente opera’;
 
M9v: register and colophon: Finisse gli sonetti di Misser Francescho Petrarcha coreti & castigati per me[sser] Hieronymo Ce[n]tone Padouano. Impressi in Venetia per Bartholomaio de Zani da Portese Nel 1497 Adi 30 Agosto Regnante lo inclito & glorioso principe Augustino Barbadico;
 
M10r-M10v: blank.

Copy Seen

Location

Fondation Barbier-Mueller
Geneva
Switzerland

Shelfmark
PETR. 12
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Location

British Library
London
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
IB23725
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

In the Munich copy (see digitized copy 1), before the Triumphi there is a hand-written Latin life of Petrarch by a humanistic hand (<inc> Franciscus Petrarcha natione etruscus religiosus devotissimus et philosophus ac poeta sui tempis [sic] clarissimus; <exp> multo splendore fulgentes ac ingenti suauitate redolentes) and the three-line Latin epitaph for Petrarch (‘Frigida francisci lapis hic tegit ossa petrarce’).
 
In the British Library copy, there are some handwritten annotations on a few RVF poems (at fol. q8v).
 
In the Barbier-Mueller copy, there are many underlinings and handwritten marginal annotations to the Triumphi (almost all referring to characters mentioned in the poems).