Maurizio Fiorilla, «MARGINALIA» FIGURATI NEI CODICI DI PETRARCA , Firenze, Leo Olschki Editore, 2005 (Biblioteca di «Lettere Italiane», vol. 65)

The marginalia added by medieval and Rennaissance readers to their texts frequently included figurative elements such as Notabene signs, pointing hands and actual small drawings. This volume analyses the manuscripts owned by Petrarch and the system of sings used by him in his annotations, including the small figures he often used to frame his notes. Also studied are the similar marginalia in manuscrpts from the library of Boccaccio and of other 14th-century intellectuals in Petrarch's circle.

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