Il Petrarcha colla spositione di Misser Giovanni Andrea Gesvaldo
Subtitle: Alla illvstriss. Signora Donna Maria di Cardona la Signora marchesana de la Palvde ...
Series: Italian books before 1601 -- roll 607, item 2
Publisher: per Giovann'Antonio di Nicolini & fratelli da Sabbio
Published: 1533
Place of publication: Venegia
Language: ita
Format: [microform] :
Number of pages: 80
Work titles: Rime
Notes: Colophon (l. [80a]) : stampato in Vinegia per Giovann'Antonio di Nicolini & fratelli da Sabbio, Nel anno di Nostre Signore MDXXXIII del mese di Luglio.

First edition of Gesualdo's bulky commentary.

Preliminary matter: dedication to the marchesana de la Palude, life of Petrarch (35 p.), with a six-page list of the passages from Petrarch's writings on which the biography is based.

Part 2 of the Canzoniere, beginning with the sonnet "Oime il bel uiso," has a second dedicatory letter.

The supplementary matter follows the table of the Sonetti.

"Triomphi" (with half-title): [80] leaves at end.

See also analysis in Cornell University. Library. Catalogue of the Petrarch collection, p. 95-96.

Two copies. Copy 2 has the table and the supplementary matter bound after the t.p. Lacks leaves cxciii-cxcvi, containing the Babylonian sonnets.