Internet Archive of Texts and Documents
Francesco Petrarca

Texts

Canzoniere

Italian (Petrarchan Grotto, University of Pennsylvania)

Italian-English selections, facing Italian and English (UC-Davis)

I trionfi

Italian (Petrarchan Grotto, University of Pennsylvania)

Rerum familiarium libri (Letters)

Preface (To His Socrates) John Tinkler trans.

Selection of Letters Robinson trans. (Hanover Historical Texts Project)

Petrarch's Preface to his First Collection of Letters
Francesco Petrarch to Posterity
Petrarch's Passion for Work - The Trials of a Man of Letters
The Visit to the Goldsmith at Bergamo
Petrarch Disclaims all Jealousy of Dante
The Story of Griselda
On the Italian Language and Literature
His Aversion to Logicians
To Marcus Tullius Cicero (1 of 2)
The Old Grammarian of Vicenza
To Marcus Tullius Cicero (2 of 2)
To Homer
On the Nature of Poetry
On the Scarcity of Copyists
The Young Humanist of Ravenna
An Excursion to Paris, the Netherlands, and the Rhine
The Ascent of Mount Ventoux
Ignorance and Presumption Rebuked
The Charms of Pavia
To Cola di Rienzo
Rienzo under the Protection of the Muses
To the Roman People, urging them to Intervene in Rienzo's Trial
To Charles IV, Emperor August of the Romans
His Audience with the Emperor
Religion does not Require us to Give up Literature
On a Religious Life
On the Impossibility of Acquiring Fame during one's Lifetime
Petrarch's Intention to Work until the Last

Secondary Sources

JSTOR title search for "petrarch" (July 15, 2000)

C. C. Bayley, "Petrarch, Charles IV, and the 'Renovatio Imperii'"

Speculum, Vol. 17, No. 3. (Jul., 1942), pp. 323-341. (JSTOR)

Andrea Bolland, "Art and Humanism in Early Renaissance Padua" Renaissance

Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 3. (Autumn, 1996), pp. 469-487. (JSTOR)

David Cast, "Aurispa, Petrarch, and Lucian: An Aspect of Renaissance Translation"

Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 2. (Summer, 1974), pp. 157-173. (JSTOR)

Carolyn Chiapelli, "The Motif of Confession in Petrarch's 'Mt. Ventoux'"

MLN, Vol. 93, No. 1, Italian Issue. (Jan., 1978), pp. 131-136.

Carol E. Quillen "Tradition Invented: Petrarch, Augustine, and the Language of Humanism"

Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 53, No. 2. (Apr. - Jun., 1992), pp. 179-207. (JSTOR)

Theodore E. Mommsen, "Petrarch's Conception of the 'Dark Ages'"

Speculum, Vol. 17, No. 2. (Apr., 1942), pp. 226-242. (JSTOR)

Conrad H. Rawski, "Petrarch's Dialogue on Music"

Speculum, Vol. 46, No. 2. (Apr., 1971), pp. 302-317. (JSTOR)

Jerrold E. Seigel "Ideals of Eloquence and Silence in Petrarch"

Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 26, No. 2. (Apr. - Jun., 1965), pp. 147-174. (JSTOR)

Nancy Struever, "Petrarch's Invective Contra Medicum"

MLN, Vol. 108, No. 4, French Issue. (Sep., 1993), pp. 659-679. (JSTOR)

Charles Trinkaus,"Humanist Treatises on the Status of the Religious"

Studies in the Renaissance, Vol. 11. (1964), pp. 7-45. (JSTOR)

Renee Neu Watkins, "Petrarch and the Black Death: From Fear to Monuments"

Studies in the Renaissance, Vol. 19. (1972), pp. 196-223. (JSTOR)

Lynn White, Jr., "Indic Elements in the Iconography of Petrarch's Trionfo della Morte"

Speculum, Vol. 49, No. 2. (Apr., 1974), pp. 201-221. (JSTOR)

Ernest H. Wilkins, "On the Evolution of Petrarch's Letter to Posterity"

Speculum, Vol. 39, No. 2. (Apr., 1964), pp. 304-308. (JSTOR)

Ernest H. Wilkins, "Petrarch's Ecclesiastical Career"

Speculum, Vol. 28, No. 4. (Oct., 1953), pp. 754-775. (JSTOR)

John E. Wrigley, "A Papal Secret Known to Petrarch"

Speculum, Vol. 39, No. 4. (Oct., 1964), pp. 613-634. (JSTOR)

Web Sites

Petrarchan Grotto (Seth Jerchower, University of Pennsylvania)

Petrarch on the Web

Biblioteca i Classici della Letteratura Italiana critical editions of Italian literature (Giuseppe Bonghi)

Manuzio Project: Biblioteca Italian texts

Last Updated: July 15, 2000
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