The four essays brought together in this mini-special issue all derive from work undertaken as part of a three-year collaborative research project, Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy, c. 1350-c. 1650, funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. Three essays have their origin in papers delivered at an international workshop organised as part of the project and entitled ‘Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy’. Held in Venice at the Palazzo Pesaro Papafava in Cannaregio on 11–12 September 2018, the workshop brought together six speakers and a further eleven discussants. The aim was to interrogate the genres, critical lexicon, material forms, and cultural significance of exegesis on Petrarch’s vernacular poetry in fifteenthand sixteenth-century Italy. What were the principal exegetical modes employed in both commentaries and academic lectures? What material forms did they assume in both manuscript and print? What interrelationships do we find both amongst the various commentaries on Petrarch, as well as between commentaries and academic lectures? What functions, exegetical or otherwise, do paratextual materials, including lives, illustrations, and even rhyming dictionaries and related materials, have in texts that deal with the interpretation of Petrarch’s vernacular poetry? These were some of the questions debated and problematised in the six papers and accompanying discussions. The event also provided an early opportunity for the postdoctoral fellows on the project – Giacomo Comiati and Lorenzo Sacchini, along with a former fellow, Francesco Venturi – to present their extensive work in gathering materials for a database of exegetical activity related to both the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta and the Triumphi in Italy, c. 1350-c. 1650. The database, now known as PERI (Petrarch Exegesis in Renaissance Italy: https://petrarch.mml.ox.ac.uk/), was subsequently launched in beta-form at an event at the Taylor Institute in Oxford in December 2018. At the concluding AHRC-sponsored project conference held at the University of Leeds on 12–13 December 2019, the team then launched an updated and more definitive version of the database. PERI is a free, fully searchable catalogue of print and manuscript copies of commentaries, of lectures, and of other modes of exegesis and forms of assistance for readers, such as lives, annotations, short notes, indexes, and related material. It also includes a limited number of other

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意大利文艺复兴时期的Petrarch评论和训ege：简介

在这个小型专题中，四篇论文汇集在一起​​，全部取材于为期三年的合作研究项目“意大利文艺复兴时期的Petrarch评论和训ege”中进行的工作。1350年 1650年，由英国艺术与人文研究委员会资助。三篇文章的起源是在作为该项目的一部分而组织的一次国际研讨会上发表的论文，题目为“意大利文艺复兴时期的宗主评论和训ege”。该讲习班于2018年9月11日至12日在威尼斯卡纳雷吉欧宫Pesaro Papafava宫举行，聚集了六名发言人和十一名讨论者。目的是询问十六世纪五十年代意大利彼得拉赫白话诗的体裁，批判词典，材料形式和文化意义。评论和学术讲座采用的主要解释方式是什么？他们在手稿和印刷品中假定了什么材料形式？在有关Petrarch的各种评论之间以及评论与学术讲座之间，我们发现什么相互关系？在解释彼得拉克白话诗的文本中，包括生活，插图，甚至押韵的词典和相关材料在内的超文本材料在释义上有什么作用？这些是六篇论文及其附带讨论中辩论和质疑的一些问题。该活动还为该项目的博士后研究员– Giacomo Comiati和Lorenzo Sacchini，以及前研究员提供了早期机会。弗朗切斯科·文图里（Francesco Venturi）–介绍他们在收集与意大利Rerum vulgariumfragmenta和Triumphi有关的训ex活动数据库方面的广泛工作，c。1350年 1650年。该数据库现在称为PERI（意大利文艺复兴时期的Petrarch Exegesis：https：//petrarch.mml.ox.ac.uk/），随后于12月在牛津泰勒学院的一次活动中以beta形式启动。 2018年。在2019年12月12日至13日在利兹大学举行的由AHRC赞助的总结性项目会议上，团队随后启动了数据库的更新版本和更明确的版本。PERI是一个免费的，完全可搜索的目录，其中包含评论，演讲，其他释经方式和对读者的帮助形式（例如生活，注释，简短注释，索引和相关材料）的印刷和手稿副本。