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Unless otherwise stated, all citations from Petrarch’s works are taken from the following editions and translations.

Petrarch’s Works

Bucolicum carmen e i suoi commenti inediti

. Edited by

Avena.

Padua

Società cooperativa tipografica

1906

Canzoniere

. Edited by

Gianfranco

Contini

; annotated by

Daniele

Ponchiroli

Turin

Einaudi

1964

Collatio laureationis

. In

Opere latine di Francesco Petrarca

, edited by

Antonietta

Bufano

vols.

Turin

Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese

1975

1255

–

Google Scholar

Contra eum qui maledixit Italie

. In

Opere latine di Francesco Petrarca

, edited by

Antonietta

Bufano

1153

–

1253

De otio religioso

. In

Opere latine di Francesco Petrarca

, edited by

Antonietta

Bufano

567

–

809

De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia

. In

Opere latine di Francesco Petrarca

, edited by

Antonietta

Bufano

1025

–

1151

De viris illustribus

. Edited by

Martellotti

Edizione nazionale delle opere di Francesco Petrarca

, vol.

Florence

Sansoni

1964

Google Scholar

De vita solitaria

. In

Opere latine di Francesco Petrarca

, edited by

Antonietta

Bufano

261

–

565

Lefamiliari di Francesco Petrarca

. Edited by

Vittorio

Rossi

and

Umberto

Bosco

Edizione nazionale delle opere di Francesco Petrarca

, vols.

10–13

Florence

Sansoni

1933–42

Google Scholar

Invective contra medicum

. In

Opere latine di Francesco Petrarca

, edited by

Antonietta

Bufano

817

–

941

Posteritati

. In

Prose

, edited by

Martellotti

et al.

La letteratura italiana. Storia e Testi

Milan-Naples

Ricciardi

1955

–

Google Scholar

Rerum memorandarum libri

. Edited by

Giuseppe

Billanovich

Edizione nazionale delle opere di Francesco Petrarca

, vol.

Florence

Sansoni

1943

Google Scholar

Rerum senilium liber XlV

Ad magnificum Franciscum de Carraria Padue dominum. Epistola I. Qualis esse debeat qui rem publicam regit

. Edited by

V. Ussani

Padua

1922

Secretum

. In

Prose

, edited by

Martellotti

et al.

–

214

Sine nomine: Lettere polemiche e politiche

. Edited by

Ugo

Dotti

Bari

Laterza

1974

Trionfi

. In

Rime, trionfi epoesie latine

, edited by

Ferdinando

Neri

et al.

Milan-Naples

Ricciardi

1951

481

–

578

Google Scholar

Petrarch’s Works

Bucolicum carmen e i suoi commenti inediti

. Edited by

Avena.

Padua

Società cooperativa tipografica

1906

Canzoniere

. Edited by

Gianfranco

Contini

; annotated by

Daniele

Ponchiroli

Turin

Einaudi

1964

Collatio laureationis

. In

Opere latine di Francesco Petrarca

, edited by

Antonietta

Bufano

vols.

Turin

Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese

1975

1255

–

Google Scholar

Contra eum qui maledixit Italie

. In

Opere latine di Francesco Petrarca

, edited by

Antonietta

Bufano

1153

–

1253

De otio religioso

. In

Opere latine di Francesco Petrarca

, edited by

Antonietta

Bufano

567

–

809

De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia

. In

Opere latine di Francesco Petrarca

, edited by

Antonietta

Bufano

1025

–

1151

De viris illustribus

. Edited by

Martellotti

Edizione nazionale delle opere di Francesco Petrarca

, vol.

Florence

Sansoni

1964

Google Scholar

De vita solitaria

. In

Opere latine di Francesco Petrarca

, edited by

Antonietta

Bufano

261

–

565

Lefamiliari di Francesco Petrarca

. Edited by

Vittorio

Rossi

and

Umberto

Bosco

Edizione nazionale delle opere di Francesco Petrarca

, vols.

10–13

Florence

Sansoni

1933–42

Google Scholar

Invective contra medicum

. In

Opere latine di Francesco Petrarca

, edited by

Antonietta

Bufano

817

–

941

Posteritati

. In

Prose

, edited by

Martellotti

et al.

La letteratura italiana. Storia e Testi

Milan-Naples

Ricciardi

1955

–

Google Scholar

Rerum memorandarum libri

. Edited by

Giuseppe

Billanovich

Edizione nazionale delle opere di Francesco Petrarca

, vol.

Florence

Sansoni

1943

Google Scholar

Rerum senilium liber XlV

Ad magnificum Franciscum de Carraria Padue dominum. Epistola I. Qualis esse debeat qui rem publicam regit

. Edited by

V. Ussani

Padua

1922

Secretum

. In

Prose

, edited by

Martellotti

et al.

–

214

Sine nomine: Lettere polemiche e politiche

. Edited by

Ugo

Dotti

Bari

Laterza

1974

Trionfi

. In

Rime, trionfi epoesie latine

, edited by

Ferdinando

Neri

et al.

Milan-Naples

Ricciardi

1951

481

–

578

Google Scholar

Translations

Bergin

Thomas G

., trans.

Petrarch’s Bucolicum

Carmen

New Haven

Yale University Press

1974

Bernardo

AIdo

, trans.

Rerum Familiarum

Libri

I-VIII

Albany

State University of New York

1975

Bernardo

AIdo

Letters on Familiar Matters: Books IX-XXIV

vols.

Baltimore

Johns Hopkins University Press

1982

Google Scholar

Bishop

Morris

, trans.

Epistle to Posterity

. In

Letters from Petrarch

Bloomington

Indiana University Press

1966

. 5-12.

Google Scholar

Carozza

Davy A.

, and

James Shey

Petrarch’s “Secretum,“ with Introduction, Notes, and Critical Anthology

Series 17

Classical Languages and Literature

, vol.

New York

Peter Lang

1989

Google Scholar

Durling

Robert M

., ed. and trans.

Petrarch’s Lyric Poems: The “Rime sparse” and Other Lyrics

Cambridge

Harvard University Press

1976

Google Scholar

Kohl

Benjamin G

How a Ruler Ought to Govern His State

In The Earthly Republic: Italian Humanists on Government and Society

, edited and translated by

Benjamin G

Kohl

and

Ronald G

Witt

, with

Elizabeth B

Welles

Philadelphia

University of Pennsylvania Press

1978

–

Google Scholar

Kohl

Benjamin G

. “

Petrarch’s Prefaces to De viris illustribus.

”

History and Theory

(

1974

132

–

Nachod

Hans

, trans.

On His Own Ignorance and That of Many Others

. In

The Renaissance Philosophy ofMan

, edited by

Ernst

Cassirer

P. O

Kristeller

, and

J. H

Randall

Jr.

Chicago

University of Chicago Press

1948

–

133

Google Scholar

Nachod

Hans

, “

A Self-Portrait.

“ In

The Renaissance Philosophy ofMan

, edited by

Ernst

Cassirer

P. O

Kristeller

, and

J. H

Randall

Jr.

–

Rawski

Conrad H.

, trans.

Four Dialogues for Scholars: The Remedies

Cleveland

Press of Western Reserve University

1967

Google Scholar

Wilkins

Ernest Hatch,

trans.

Triumphs

Chicago

University of Chicago Press

1962

Google Scholar

Zacour

Norman P.

Petrarch’s Book without a Name: A Translation of the “Liber sine nomine.”

Toronto

Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

1973

Google Scholar

Zeitlin

Jacob.

The Life ofSolitude by Francis Petrarch

Urbana

University of Illinois Press

1924

Google Scholar

Translations

Bergin

Thomas G

., trans.

Petrarch’s Bucolicum

Carmen

New Haven

Yale University Press

1974

Bernardo

AIdo

, trans.

Rerum Familiarum

Libri

I-VIII

Albany

State University of New York

1975

Bernardo

AIdo

Letters on Familiar Matters: Books IX-XXIV

vols.

Baltimore

Johns Hopkins University Press

1982

Google Scholar

Bishop

Morris

, trans.

Epistle to Posterity

. In

Letters from Petrarch

Bloomington

Indiana University Press

1966

. 5-12.

Google Scholar

Carozza

Davy A.

, and

James Shey

Petrarch’s “Secretum,“ with Introduction, Notes, and Critical Anthology

Series 17

Classical Languages and Literature

, vol.

New York

Peter Lang

1989

Google Scholar

Durling

Robert M

., ed. and trans.

Petrarch’s Lyric Poems: The “Rime sparse” and Other Lyrics

Cambridge

Harvard University Press

1976

Google Scholar

Kohl

Benjamin G

How a Ruler Ought to Govern His State

In The Earthly Republic: Italian Humanists on Government and Society

, edited and translated by

Benjamin G

Kohl

and

Ronald G

Witt

, with

Elizabeth B

Welles

Philadelphia

University of Pennsylvania Press

1978

–

Google Scholar

Kohl

Benjamin G

. “

Petrarch’s Prefaces to De viris illustribus.

”

History and Theory

(

1974

132

–

Nachod

Hans

, trans.

On His Own Ignorance and That of Many Others

. In

The Renaissance Philosophy ofMan

, edited by

Ernst

Cassirer

P. O

Kristeller

, and

J. H

Randall

Jr.

Chicago

University of Chicago Press

1948

–

133

Google Scholar

Nachod

Hans

, “

A Self-Portrait.

“ In

The Renaissance Philosophy ofMan

, edited by

Ernst

Cassirer

P. O

Kristeller

, and

J. H

Randall

Jr.

–

Rawski

Conrad H.

, trans.

Four Dialogues for Scholars: The Remedies

Cleveland

Press of Western Reserve University

1967

Google Scholar

Wilkins

Ernest Hatch,

trans.

Triumphs

Chicago

University of Chicago Press

1962

Google Scholar

Zacour

Norman P.

Petrarch’s Book without a Name: A Translation of the “Liber sine nomine.”

Toronto

Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

1973

Google Scholar

Zeitlin

Jacob.

The Life ofSolitude by Francis Petrarch

Urbana

University of Illinois Press

1924

Duke Monographs in Medieval and Renaissance Studies

The Worlds of Petrarch

Duke University Press

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1993

Petrarch’s Works

Bucolicum carmen e i suoi commenti inediti

. Edited by

Avena.

Padua

Società cooperativa tipografica

1906

Canzoniere

. Edited by

Gianfranco

Contini

; annotated by

Daniele

Ponchiroli

Turin

Einaudi

1964

Collatio laureationis

. In

Opere latine di Francesco Petrarca

, edited by

Antonietta

Bufano

vols.

Turin

Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese

1975

1255

–

Google Scholar

Contra eum qui maledixit Italie

. In

Opere latine di Francesco Petrarca

, edited by

Antonietta

Bufano

1153

–

1253

De otio religioso

. In

Opere latine di Francesco Petrarca

, edited by

Antonietta

Bufano

567

–

809

De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia

. In

Opere latine di Francesco Petrarca

, edited by

Antonietta

Bufano

1025

–

1151

De viris illustribus

. Edited by

Martellotti

Edizione nazionale delle opere di Francesco Petrarca

, vol.

Florence

Sansoni

1964

Google Scholar

De vita solitaria

. In

Opere latine di Francesco Petrarca

, edited by

Antonietta

Bufano

261

–

565

Lefamiliari di Francesco Petrarca

. Edited by

Vittorio

Rossi

and

Umberto

Bosco

Edizione nazionale delle opere di Francesco Petrarca

, vols.

10–13

Florence

Sansoni

1933–42

Google Scholar

Invective contra medicum

. In

Opere latine di Francesco Petrarca

, edited by

Antonietta

Bufano

817

–

941

Posteritati

. In

Prose

, edited by

Martellotti

et al.

La letteratura italiana. Storia e Testi

Milan-Naples

Ricciardi

1955

–

Google Scholar

Rerum memorandarum libri

. Edited by

Giuseppe

Billanovich

Edizione nazionale delle opere di Francesco Petrarca

, vol.

Florence

Sansoni

1943

Google Scholar

Rerum senilium liber XlV

Ad magnificum Franciscum de Carraria Padue dominum. Epistola I. Qualis esse debeat qui rem publicam regit

. Edited by

V. Ussani

Padua

1922

Secretum

. In

Prose

, edited by

Martellotti

et al.

–

214

Sine nomine: Lettere polemiche e politiche

. Edited by

Ugo

Dotti

Bari

Laterza

1974

Trionfi

. In

Rime, trionfi epoesie latine

, edited by

Ferdinando

Neri

et al.

Milan-Naples

Ricciardi

1951

481

–

578

Google Scholar

Petrarch’s Works

Bucolicum carmen e i suoi commenti inediti

. Edited by

Avena.

Padua

Società cooperativa tipografica

1906

Canzoniere

. Edited by

Gianfranco

Contini

; annotated by

Daniele

Ponchiroli

Turin

Einaudi

1964

Collatio laureationis

. In

Opere latine di Francesco Petrarca

, edited by

Antonietta

Bufano

vols.

Turin

Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese

1975

1255

–

Google Scholar

Contra eum qui maledixit Italie

. In

Opere latine di Francesco Petrarca

, edited by

Antonietta

Bufano

1153

–

1253

De otio religioso

. In

Opere latine di Francesco Petrarca

, edited by

Antonietta

Bufano

567

–

809

De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia

. In

Opere latine di Francesco Petrarca

, edited by

Antonietta

Bufano

1025

–

1151

De viris illustribus

. Edited by

Martellotti

Edizione nazionale delle opere di Francesco Petrarca

, vol.

Florence

Sansoni

1964

Google Scholar

De vita solitaria

. In

Opere latine di Francesco Petrarca

, edited by

Antonietta

Bufano

261

–

565

Lefamiliari di Francesco Petrarca

. Edited by

Vittorio

Rossi

and

Umberto

Bosco

Edizione nazionale delle opere di Francesco Petrarca

, vols.

10–13

Florence

Sansoni

1933–42

Google Scholar

Invective contra medicum

. In

Opere latine di Francesco Petrarca

, edited by

Antonietta

Bufano

817

–

941

Posteritati

. In

Prose

, edited by

Martellotti

et al.

La letteratura italiana. Storia e Testi

Milan-Naples

Ricciardi

1955

–

Google Scholar

Rerum memorandarum libri

. Edited by

Giuseppe

Billanovich

Edizione nazionale delle opere di Francesco Petrarca

, vol.

Florence

Sansoni

1943

Google Scholar

Rerum senilium liber XlV

Ad magnificum Franciscum de Carraria Padue dominum. Epistola I. Qualis esse debeat qui rem publicam regit

. Edited by

V. Ussani

Padua

1922

Secretum

. In

Prose

, edited by

Martellotti

et al.

–

214

Sine nomine: Lettere polemiche e politiche

. Edited by

Ugo

Dotti

Bari

Laterza

1974

Trionfi

. In

Rime, trionfi epoesie latine

, edited by

Ferdinando

Neri

et al.

Milan-Naples

Ricciardi

1951

481

–

578

Google Scholar

Translations

Bergin

Thomas G

., trans.

Petrarch’s Bucolicum

Carmen

New Haven

Yale University Press

1974

Bernardo

AIdo

, trans.

Rerum Familiarum

Libri

I-VIII

Albany

State University of New York

1975

Bernardo

AIdo

Letters on Familiar Matters: Books IX-XXIV

vols.

Baltimore

Johns Hopkins University Press

1982

Google Scholar

Bishop

Morris

, trans.

Epistle to Posterity

. In

Letters from Petrarch

Bloomington

Indiana University Press

1966

. 5-12.

Google Scholar

Carozza

Davy A.

, and

James Shey

Petrarch’s “Secretum,“ with Introduction, Notes, and Critical Anthology

Series 17

Classical Languages and Literature

, vol.

New York

Peter Lang

1989

Google Scholar

Durling

Robert M

., ed. and trans.

Petrarch’s Lyric Poems: The “Rime sparse” and Other Lyrics

Cambridge

Harvard University Press

1976

Google Scholar

Kohl

Benjamin G

How a Ruler Ought to Govern His State

In The Earthly Republic: Italian Humanists on Government and Society

, edited and translated by

Benjamin G

Kohl

and

Ronald G

Witt

, with

Elizabeth B

Welles

Philadelphia

University of Pennsylvania Press

1978

–

Google Scholar

Kohl

Benjamin G

. “

Petrarch’s Prefaces to De viris illustribus.

”

History and Theory

(

1974

132

–

Nachod

Hans

, trans.

On His Own Ignorance and That of Many Others

. In

The Renaissance Philosophy ofMan

, edited by

Ernst

Cassirer

P. O

Kristeller

, and

J. H

Randall

Jr.

Chicago

University of Chicago Press

1948

–

133

Google Scholar

Nachod

Hans

, “

A Self-Portrait.

“ In

The Renaissance Philosophy ofMan

, edited by

Ernst

Cassirer

P. O

Kristeller

, and

J. H

Randall

Jr.

–

Rawski

Conrad H.

, trans.

Four Dialogues for Scholars: The Remedies

Cleveland

Press of Western Reserve University

1967

Google Scholar

Wilkins

Ernest Hatch,

trans.

Triumphs

Chicago

University of Chicago Press

1962

Google Scholar

Zacour

Norman P.

Petrarch’s Book without a Name: A Translation of the “Liber sine nomine.”

Toronto

Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

1973

Google Scholar

Zeitlin

Jacob.

The Life ofSolitude by Francis Petrarch

Urbana

University of Illinois Press

1924

Google Scholar

Translations

Bergin

Thomas G

., trans.

Petrarch’s Bucolicum

Carmen

New Haven

Yale University Press

1974

Bernardo

AIdo

, trans.

Rerum Familiarum

Libri

I-VIII

Albany

State University of New York

1975

Bernardo

AIdo

Letters on Familiar Matters: Books IX-XXIV

vols.

Baltimore

Johns Hopkins University Press

1982

Google Scholar

Bishop

Morris

, trans.

Epistle to Posterity

. In

Letters from Petrarch

Bloomington

Indiana University Press

1966

. 5-12.

Google Scholar

Carozza

Davy A.

, and

James Shey

Petrarch’s “Secretum,“ with Introduction, Notes, and Critical Anthology

Series 17

Classical Languages and Literature

, vol.

New York

Peter Lang

1989

Google Scholar

Durling

Robert M

., ed. and trans.

Petrarch’s Lyric Poems: The “Rime sparse” and Other Lyrics

Cambridge

Harvard University Press

1976

Google Scholar

Kohl

Benjamin G

How a Ruler Ought to Govern His State

In The Earthly Republic: Italian Humanists on Government and Society

, edited and translated by

Benjamin G

Kohl

and

Ronald G

Witt

, with

Elizabeth B

Welles

Philadelphia

University of Pennsylvania Press

1978

–

Google Scholar

Kohl

Benjamin G

. “

Petrarch’s Prefaces to De viris illustribus.

”

History and Theory

(

1974

132

–

Nachod

Hans

, trans.

On His Own Ignorance and That of Many Others

. In

The Renaissance Philosophy ofMan

, edited by

Ernst

Cassirer

P. O

Kristeller

, and

J. H

Randall

Jr.

Chicago

University of Chicago Press

1948

–

133

Google Scholar

Nachod

Hans

, “

A Self-Portrait.

“ In

The Renaissance Philosophy ofMan

, edited by

Ernst

Cassirer

P. O

Kristeller

, and

J. H

Randall

Jr.

–

Rawski

Conrad H.

, trans.

Four Dialogues for Scholars: The Remedies

Cleveland

Press of Western Reserve University

1967

Google Scholar

Wilkins

Ernest Hatch,

trans.

Triumphs

Chicago

University of Chicago Press

1962

Google Scholar

Zacour

Norman P.

Petrarch’s Book without a Name: A Translation of the “Liber sine nomine.”

Toronto

Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

1973

Google Scholar

Zeitlin

Jacob.

The Life ofSolitude by Francis Petrarch

Urbana

University of Illinois Press

1924

Google Scholar

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