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Manchester. The John Rylands Library, David Lloyd Roberts Book Collection, R52115

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Manchester Digital Collections
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The John Rylands Library
Shelfmark
  • R52115
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Date
  • 1553
Language
  • Italian
Title
  • Il Petrarcha con l'espositione di m. Giouanni Andrea Gesualdo, nuouamente ristampato, e con somma diligenza corretto, con nuoua tauola di tutte le cose degne di memoria, che in essa espositione si contengono, & ornato di figure. (Canzoniere e trionfi | Rerum vulgarium fragmenta | Trionfi. | Rime.)
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  • Preferred form
    • Pétrarque (1304-1374)
    Role
    • Author
    Original form
    • Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
    Other form
    • Petrarca, Francesco (1304-1374)
    • Francesco Petrarca
    • Petrarca, Francesco
    • PETRARCHA (Franciscus)
    • Franciscus Petrarcha
    • Francesco Petrarcha
    • Pétrarque
    • PETRARQUE
    • Pétrarque (1304-1374)
    • Petrarque, François
    • PETRARQUE (François)
    • Franciscus Petrarca
    • Pétarque
    • François Pétrarque
    • FRANCISCUS PETRARCHA
    • Pétrarque (François)
    • Francisci Petrarche
    • Pétrarque 1304-1374
    • Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
    • Author: Petrarca, Francesco
    • Former possessor: Petrarca, Francesco
    • Annotator: Petrarca, Francesco
    • Petrarch
    • Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374, poet
    • Petrarcha
    • Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374)
    • Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. Triumphus Fame
    • Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. Trionfo della fama
    • Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. Trionfo della fama.
    • Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. La gola, e 'l sonno, e l'ociose piume.
    • Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. In qual parte del cielo, in qual idea ...
    • Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. In quella parte dov'amor mi sprona.
    • Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. Rerum vulgarium fragmenta.
    • Francesco Pétrarque (1304-1374)
    • Petrarca
    • Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374 > , co-autor
    • Francesco Petrarca - 1304 - 1374 - auteur
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  • Preferred form
    • Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo (1496-155.)
    Original form
    • Gesualdo, Giovanni Andrea, active 16th century.
    Biblissima authority file
  • Preferred form
    • Alessandro Farnese (1520-1589)
    Role
    • Former owner
    Original form
    • Farnese, Alessandro, 1520-1589
    Other form
    • Alexander cardinalis P. III
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    Biblissima authority file
  • Preferred form
    • David Lloyd Roberts (1835-1920)
    Role
    • Former owner
    Original form
    • Roberts, David Lloyd, 1834-1920
    Biblissima authority file
  • Preferred form
    • Enea Vico (1523-1567)
    Role
    • Engraver
    Original form
    • Vico, Enea, 1523-1567
    Biblissima authority file
  • Preferred form
    • Venise. Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari & fratelli
    Role
    • Printer
    Original form
    • Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari & fratelli
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Description
  • Extent:
    [52], 667 [i.e. 683] p., ill., 23 cm. (4to) Leaf height: 216 mm, width: 150 mm.
    Binding:

    Sixteenth-century Italian[?] full goatskin over boards; quadruple fillet gilt-tooled to form a border; stars gilt-tooled at the corners; fleurons gilt-tooled on the border's corners; frame of interlacing ribbon colored in silver; arabesque design colored in gilt, silver and blue; arms of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese colored in gilt, silver, green and yellow on the front cover; direct-lettered in gilt on the rear cover: Domus Farnesiana semper florida erit; smooth spine divided up by roll to create a compartment effect; all compartments colored in gilt with arabesque design; all edges gilt and gauffered; see Quaritch, A collection of facsimiles from examples of historic or artistic book-binding, 1889, reference no. 32.


    Acquisition:

    Part of the Lloyd Roberts collection, bequeathed to the John Rylands Library by David Lloyd Roberts in 1920


    Data Source(s):

    Created as part of the project 'Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy, c.1350-c.1650' funded by the AHRC and led by Professor Simon Gilson (University of Oxford, Principal Investigator), Dr Federica Pich (University of Leeds, Co-Investigator) and Dr Guyda Armstrong (University of Manchester, Co-Investigator), edited and revised by Julianne Simpson


    Subject(s):
    Noves, Laura de, 1308?-1348.; Italian poetry -- 14th century -- Early works to 1800.
    Abstract:


    Format:
    Codex
    Provenance:

    From the library of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1520-1589).

    MS inscription in the second front endpaper recto: J. S. W.

    Printed paper label on the front pastedown: From the library of D. Lloyd Roberts M.D. F.R.C.P. Ravenswood Broughton Park Manchester.


    Additions:

    Engraved frontispiece substituting the original title-page: Il Petrarca con la spositione di m. Gio Andrea Giesualdo; defaced shield; defaced phrase: Enea Vico Parmae l'anno M DXL VIII; drawn by hand part of Alessandro Farnese's arms; original title, painted over with white pigment: Le imagini con tutti i riuersi trouati et le vite de gli imperatori tratte dalle medaglie et dalle historie de gli antichi. Libro primo.

    The Babylonian sonnet criticizing ecclesiastical corruption in the papal Curia in Avignone ('L'auara Babilonia ha colmo 'l sacco' on page 264) is crossed through in MS.

    One leaf MS note pasted on the first front endpaper recto with information about Alessandro Farnese's life and the binding.


    Note(s):

    Signatures: A-Z⁸, AA-MM⁸, NN², OO-VV⁸, XX⁴.

    Imprint from the colophon.

    Title-page introducing the second part of the book on page 549: I Trionfi del Petrarca colla spositione di messer Giouanni Andrea Gesualdo da Traetto. Alla Illustriss. signora donna Susanna di Gonzaga la signora Contessa di Colisano. In Vinegia appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari e fratelli. M DLIII..

    Woodcut portrait of Petrarch and Laura on *4v; map of Vaucluse on ***1r. Each triumph is preceded by a rectangular-box woodcut: Amoris (OO4r), Pudicitie (RR1r), Mortis (RR7r), Fame (SS7r), Temporis (VV5r), Eternitatis (VV8v)

    Reprinted from the previous Gesualdo editions (1533, 1541) without the giunta of five sonnets, with the illustrations of the Vellutello editions from the Giolito press, the addition of an index to the commentary, and the Sonetto sopra le sacre ceneri.

    Petrarch’s poems and commentary in italic type; printed numbering; Petrarch’s poems printed with one verse per line on left, followed by commentary printed next to it in the same line and then distributed across the page beneath them, and prose texts.


    Publication:
    In Vinegia : Appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari e fratelli, M D LIII. [1553]
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