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Petrarca (Francesco) Trionfi, commentary by Bernardo Lapini da Siena, 196 ff., the first blank, 51 lines of commentary surrounding text, Gothic letter, initial spaces with guide-letter, early ink marginalia (including a few fingerposts), some in red, verso of final f. and recto of endpaper with early ink poetry, single wormhole within text towards latter part of work, increasing to 2-3 holes in last few ff., a few short marginal tears, some staining, occasional spotting and finger-marking, 17th century limp vellum, stained, Venice, Reynaldus de Novimagio and Theodorus de Reynsburch, February, 1478; Canzoniere, commentary by Franciscus Philelphus, 90 ff., 50 lines of commentary surrounding text, Gothic type, initial spaces with guide-letter, ink ownership inscriptions to a1r and foot of a few ff., that on c7v obliterated, stained, some foxing, 18th century half calf, spine in compartments with later gilt and red morocco label, rubbed, Venice, Reynaldus de Novimagio and Theodorus de Reynsburch, March, 1478, [BMC V, 254; Goff P-381; HC 12767], folio (2)

⁂ It is rare to unite both these volumes. The commentaries are considered to be the most influential of the early analyses. The poem depicts a triumphal procession, in which there are six allegorical figures - Love, Chastity, Death, Fame, Time, and Divinity, with Divinity triumphing above all.

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Petrarca (Francesco) Trionfi, commentary by Bernardo Lapini da Siena, 196 ff., the first blank, 51 lines of commentary surrounding text, Gothic letter, initial spaces with guide-letter, early ink marginalia (including a few fingerposts), some in red, verso of final f. and recto of endpaper with early ink poetry, single wormhole within text towards latter part of work, increasing to 2-3 holes in last few ff., a few short marginal tears, some staining, occasional spotting and finger-marking, 17th century limp vellum, stained, Venice, Reynaldus de Novimagio and Theodorus de Reynsburch, February, 1478; Canzoniere, commentary by Franciscus Philelphus, 90 ff., 50 lines of commentary surrounding text, Gothic type, initial spaces with guide-letter, ink ownership inscriptions to a1r and foot of a few ff., that on c7v obliterated, stained, some foxing, 18th century half calf, spine in compartments with later gilt and red morocco label, rubbed, Venice, Reynaldus de Novimagio and Theodorus de Reynsburch, March, 1478, [BMC V, 254; Goff P-381; HC 12767], folio (2)

⁂ It is rare to unite both these volumes. The commentaries are considered to be the most influential of the early analyses. The poem depicts a triumphal procession, in which there are six allegorical figures - Love, Chastity, Death, Fame, Time, and Divinity, with Divinity triumphing above all.

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