Petrarch 3.2

This fifteenth-century edition of Petrarch's poetry was once thought to have issued (like the previous book) from Jenson's press but now appears to have been the work of Gabriele di Pietro. As can be seen from the opening leaf, to which the book is open, it has been treated to some extensive decoration. Such adornment, even of printed books, was often undertaken with books that presented culturally significant works. Audiences wished to make certain that the physical products they acquired displayed both their own as well as the work's elite nature.