Excerpts from Petrarch
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EXCERPTS-FROM-PETRARCH
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5-240 (II, f.192-194r), ‘Extraits ‘del Petrarca’’
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Excerpts from Petrarch
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Incipit Diplomatic:
La gola, e il sonno, e l’otiose piume
Incipit Modernised:
La gola, e il sonno, e l’otiose piume
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Partly
Brief Summary:
This manuscript contains extracts from Petrarch’s works, with the titular phrase ‘del Petrarca’ written in Voltaire’s hand.
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3 ff.
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The manuscript is bound with other documents in contemporary red morocco.
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After Voltaire’s death, the MS passed into the ownership of Catherine II and remained in the imperial and then national collection thereafter.
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This MS was probably taken to St Petersburg by Wagnière in the summer of 1779 along with the rest of Voltaire’s library.
Bibliography
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Fernand Caussy, Inventaire des manuscrits de la bibliothèque de Voltaire conservée à la bibliothèque impériale publique de Saint-Pétersbourg (Geneva, Slatkine reprints, 1970), p.13.
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