 |
 |
|
|
| 
|
PIER PAOLO VERGERIO SR., 1370 - 1444
Vita Petrarce
On paper
Italy (probably Padua), end of the 15th century
Osborn MS a. 17, ff. 104v - 105r
The popularity of Petrarch in the Padua/Venice area, where
he spent the last years of his life, is evident in this
manuscript, a humanistic miscellany containing works by
and about Petrarch, as well as many other texts by various
authors. Today’s reader marvels at the large quantity
and variety of writings by Pier Paolo Vergerio, Francesco
Contarini, Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini, Girolamo
Maggi, Phillippus Ariminensis, and Horace, as well as
quotations from Plato, Plutarch, Pliny, St. Jerome and
Aristotle, notes on Paduan painters including Giotto,
and anonymous speeches. The Petrarchan material is equally
varied: it includes Pier Paolo Vergerio's life of Petrarch
and Lombardo della Seta’s letter to Petrarch. By
Petrarch himself we find his translation of the Griselda
novella by Boccaccio, and his note on the death of Laura.
This is the first page of Pier Paolo Vergerio’s
life of Petrarch on f. 105r.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
