The Passionate Collector: Willard Fiske and his Libraries

Francesco Petrarca. Le volgari opere del Petrarcha, con la espositione di Alessandro Vellutello da Lucca. Venice, 1525.

This first edition with commentary of Petrarch’s vernacular Rime (Verse), issued by “Giovanniantonio & fratelli da Sabbio,” includes a detailed, engraved map of the region surrounding Avignon, in southeastern France, home to the Papacy from 1309 to 1377. Petrarch, often employed by the papal court, lived much of his life in Avignon and the surrounding countryside known as the Vaucluse.


		Francesco Petrarca *Francesco Petrarca. Le volgari opere del Petrarcha, con la espositione di Alessandro Vellutello da Lucca. Venice, 1525.* This first edition with commentary of Petrarch’s vernacular Rime (Verse), issued by “Giovanniantonio & fratelli da Sabbio,” includes a detailed, engraved map of the region surrounding Avignon, in southeastern France, home to the Papacy from 1309 to 1377. Petrarch, often employed by the papal court, lived much of his life in Avignon and the surrounding countryside known as the Vaucluse. Continue the tour