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• Autobiography Of Benvenuto Cellini, by Benvenuto Cellini, trans. by John Addington Symonds
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text and HTML
• Vita di Benvenuto Cellini, Orefice e Scultore Fiorentino da lui Medesimo Scritta, Nella Quale Molte Curiose Particolarità si Toccano Appartenenti Alle arti, ed all'istoria del suo Tempo Tratta da un Ottimo Manoscritto (in Italian; fictitious imprint; actually published Florence: Bartolini, 1792), by Benvenuto Cellini
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

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• Autobiography Of Benvenuto Cellini, by Benvenuto Cellini, trans. by John Addington Symonds
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  • Gutenberg text and HTML
• Vita di Benvenuto Cellini, Orefice e Scultore Fiorentino da lui Medesimo Scritta, Nella Quale Molte Curiose Particolarità si Toccano Appartenenti Alle arti, ed all'istoria del suo Tempo Tratta da un Ottimo Manoscritto (in Italian; fictitious imprint; actually published Florence: Bartolini, 1792), by Benvenuto Cellini
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text)

• Le Vite de Piu Eccellenti Architetti, Pittori, et Scultori Italiani (3 parts in 2 volumes, in Italian; Florence: L. Torrentino, 1550), by Giorgio Vasari
  • Volume 1 (Parts 1 and 2): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (Part 3): multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Le Vite de' Piu Eccellenti Pittori, Scultori, et Architettori (3 volumes, in Italian; Florence: Giunti, 1568), by Giorgio Vasari, contrib. by Giovan Battista Cini and Giovanni Battista Adriani, illust. by Cristoforo Chrieger
  • Parts 1 and 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part 3, volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part 3, volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (10 volumes; London: Macmillan and Co. and the Medici Society, 1912-1915), by Giorgio Vasari, trans. by Gaston du C. De Vere (multiple formats at archive.org and Gutenberg)
• The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, by John Addington Symonds (Gutenberg text)

• The Culture of San Sepolcro During the Youth of Piero della Francesca (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), by James R. Banker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leonardo da Vinci: A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1916), by Sigmund Freud, trans. by A. A. Brill (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Codice dell'Anonimo Gaddiano (cod. Magliabechiano XVII, 17) nella Biblioteca Nazionale de Firenze (2 parts in 1 volume, reprinted from Archivo Storico Italiano, in Italian; Florence, Italy: Tip. M. Cellini e C., 1893), by Cornelius von Fabriczy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Playing with Fire: European Terracotta Models, 1740-1840 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004), ed. by James David Draper and Guilhem Scherf, contrib. by Magnus Olausson, E. V. Karpova, Bernhard Maaz, Roberta J. M. Olson, and Burkard von Roda (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th Centuries: The Reign of Louis XIV (4 volumes; 1977-1993), by François Souchal, Françoise de La Moureyre-Gavoty, and Henriette Dumuis (page images at wpi.art)
• Une Dynastie de Sculpteurs au XVIIIe Siècle: Les Lemoyne (in French; Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, Edition d'Etudes et de Documents, c1927), by Louis Réau (page images with commentary at wpi.art)

• An Italian Portrait Gallery: Being Brief Biographies of Scholars Illustrious Within the Memory of Our Grand-Fathers for the Published Monument of Their Genius (Boston: Chapman and Grimes, 1935), by Paolo Giovio, trans. by Florence Alden Gragg (HTML at elfinspell.com)

• De Claris Archigymnasii Bononiensis Professoribus a Saeculo XI Usque ad Saeculum XIV (2 volumes in Latin; Bologna: Ex officina regia fratrum Merlani, 1888-1896), by Mauro Sarti and Mauro Fattorini, ed. by Cesare Albicini and Carlo Malagola
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Internet Archive

• The Story of San Michele (c1929), by Axel Munthe (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Croniche Storiche di Giovanni, Matteo e Filippo Villani: A Miglior Lezione Ridotte Coll'Aiuto dei Testi a Penna (7 volumes in Italian; Milan: Borroni e Scotti, 1848), by Giovanni Villani, Matteo Villani, and Filippo Villani, contrib. by Michele Sartorio, Ignazio Moutier, and Francesco Gherardi Dragomanni (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, by John Addington Symonds (Gutenberg text)

• Writing Ravenna: The Liber Pontificalis of Andreas Agnellus (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1995), by Joaquín Martínez Pizarro (page images at HathiTrust)

• Greater Than Emperor: Cola di Rienzo (ca. 1313-54) and the World of Fourteenth-Century Rome (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Amanda Collins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Andrea Costa e l'Internazionale (in Italian; Rome: G. Tuzzi, 1910), by Carlo Monticelli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Titta Ruffo: Notas de Psicología Artístics (in Spanish; Buenos Aires: Edición de la Revista "Música", 1911), by Mariano Antonio Barrenechea (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Writing Ravenna: The Liber Pontificalis of Andreas Agnellus (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1995), by Joaquín Martínez Pizarro (page images at HathiTrust)

• Giordano Bruno: His Life, Thought, and Martyrdom (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1914), by William Boulting (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Giordano Bruno: His Life, Thought, and Martyrdom (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1914), by William Boulting (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Dialogue of the Seraphic Virgin, by Saint Catherine of Siena (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• Life and Revelations of Saint Margaret of Cortona: Dedicated to Her Brothers and Sisters of the Third Order of Saint Francis (London: Burns and Oates; Dublin; M. H. Gill and Sons, 1883), by Giunta Bevegnati, trans. by F. M'Donogh Mahony, contrib. by J.-F.-O. Luquet
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Life of Saint Margaret of Cortona (Philadelphia: P. F. Cunningham and Son, 1888), by Antonio Francesco Giovagnoli (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Life and Legend of the Lady Saint Clare (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1910), trans. by Charlotte Balfour, contrib. by Francis Du Puis, Father Cuthbert, and Clare of Assisi
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi, by Candide Chalippe, ed. by Hilarion Duerk (Gutenberg text)

• Preachers of the Italian Ghetto (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ed. by David B. Ruderman (HTML at UC Press)

• Jerome Nadal, S.J., 1507-1580: Tracking the First Generation of Jesuits (Chicago: Loyola University Press, c1992), by William V. Bangert, ed. by Thomas M. McCoog (page images at HathiTrust)

• Alberico Gentili: Studi (2 parts, in Italian; part 1 published Rome: F. Pallotta, 1876; part 2 published Rome: A. Piceno, 1910), by Giuseppe Speranza
  • both parts bound together: page images at HathiTrust
  • Part 1: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Strozzi of Florence: Widowhood and Family Solidarity in the Renaissance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Ann Crabb (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497: A Study of the Renaissance (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co.; London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1903), by Julia Cartwright (page images at HathiTrust)

• Giordano Bruno (London and New York: Macmillan, 1903), by J. Lewis McIntyre (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Giordano Bruno: His Life, Thought, and Martyrdom (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1914), by William Boulting (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Giordano Bruno: The Forgotten Philosopher, by John Jacob Kessler (HTML at infidels.org)

• A Mind Always in Motion: The Autobiography of Emilio Segre (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Emilio Segrè (HTML at UC Press)

• My Ten Years' Imprisonment (Cassell and Company, 1886), by Silvio Pellico, trans. by Thomas Roscoe (Gutenberg text)

• Margherita of Savoy, First Queen of Italy: Her Life and Times (London: Mills and Boon, 1914), by Fanny Zampini-Salazar, contrib. by Richard Bagot (page images at HathiTrust)

• Greater Than Emperor: Cola di Rienzo (ca. 1313-54) and the World of Fourteenth-Century Rome (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Amanda Collins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gasparo Contarini: Venice, Rome, and Reform (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Elisabeth G. Gleason (illustrated HTML at UC Press)