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PETRARCA, FRANCESCO. Trionfi e Canzoniere. With commentaries by Bernardo Lapini da Siena and Francesco Filelfo. [75] (of [76]); [178] (of [180]) leaves; lacks the 2 blanks and register leaf. Gothic type. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 282x192 mm, 18th-century Italian vellum boards, scratches and stains on covers; marginal dampstaining through most of volume with occasional traces of mold, scattered partly cropped marginalia, small wormholes at beginning and end not impairing legibility, first and last pages heavily soiled with marginal reinforcement not affecting text, Sonnet 17 excised from B6 with loss to commentary on verso, Sonnet 94 (i. e., 114, "Del impia Babylonia" etc.) and commentary on D5 defaced with ink and holes also affecting text on verso. Stamp of Marchese Alessandro Gregorio Capponi (1683-1746) on verso of first leaf. (Venice: Leonardus Wild, 1481)
Thirteenth edition of Petrarch's lyric and allegorical verse after the first circa 1470, and third with these commentaries. Hain-Copinger 12768; ISTC ip00382000.
