MINIATURIST, Italian
(active around 1460s in Siena)

Petrarch: Canzoniere and Trionfi

c. 1463
Manuscript (Plut. 141. 1.)
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence

The manuscript was copied in Siena in 1463. The decoration includes illuminated initials. The full-page portraits of Petrarch and Laura on the two pages preceding the text are not contemporary with the manuscript, they were added a few years later.

Folio VIIIv contains the portrait of Petrarch.