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Books about Francesco Petrarca:

• Four Essays (Harvard Studies in Romance Languages v3; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1917), by Murray Anthony Potter (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Life of Petrarch (2 volumes, with an appendix by Pfister on coins relating to the age of Petrarch; London: H. Colburn, 1841), by Thomas Campbell, contrib. by J. G. Pfister
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch, Now First Completely Translated into English Verse by Various Hands (with a life of Petrarch by Campbell; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1879), by Francesco Petrarca, contrib. by Thomas Campbell
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Teacher of Dante, and Other Studies in Italian Literature (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1908), by Nathan Haskell Dole (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

• Petrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters: A Selection From His Correspondence With Boccaccio and Other Friends, Designed to Illustrate the Beginnings of the Renaissance (second edition, revised and enlarged; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1914), by Francesco Petrarca, ed. by James Harvey Robinson and Henry Winchester Rolfe
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Rereading the Renaissance: Petrarch, Augustine, and the Language of Humanism (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Carol E. Quillen (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Sketch of the Lives and Writings of Dante and Petrarch; With Some Account of Italian and Latin Literature in the Fourteenth Century (London: Printed for J. Stockdale, 1790), by Thomas Penrose
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Echoes of Desire: English Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Heather Dubrow (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Chaucer's Italian Tradition (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by Warren Ginsberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Saggio sull' "Africa" del Petrarca (in Italian; Palermo et al.: R. Sandron, 1926), by Nicola Festa (page images at HathiTrust)

Books by Francesco Petrarca:

• Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374: Africa (in Latin; Paris: E. Thorin, 1872), ed. by Léonce Pingaud
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374: Petrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters: A Selection From His Correspondence With Boccaccio and Other Friends, Designed to Illustrate the Beginnings of the Renaissance (second edition, revised and enlarged; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1914), ed. by James Harvey Robinson and Henry Winchester Rolfe
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374: Petrarch's Letters to Classical Authors (with commentary by the translator; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1910), trans. by Mario Emilio Cosenza
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374: The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch, Now First Completely Translated into English Verse by Various Hands (with a life of Petrarch by Campbell; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1879), contrib. by Thomas Campbell
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374: Translations from the Italian; Traduzioni dall' Italiano (London: Charles Whittingham, 1836), trans. by Barbarina Dacre (frame-dependent HTML at cdlib.org)

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