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Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374)

Francesco Petrarca was an Italian scholar, poet, and early humanist born on July 20, 1304 in Arezzo, Italy. He is often considered the “father of humanism” and one of the greatest poets of the Italian Renaissance. He was an avid collector of rare books and manuscripts and spent much of his life travelling and studying. He was an influential figure in the development of the literary and artistic culture of the Renaissance. He wrote numerous works in Latin, such as letters, poetry, and an epic poem Africa, as well as works in Italian including the Canzoniere, a collection of love poetry. Petrarch’s works helped to revive interest in the works of classical antiquity and were instrumental in the development of the Italian language. He died on July 19, 1374 in Arquà, Italy.

Ars punctandi. Johannes de Lapide: Dialogus de arte punctandi; Generales punctorum formae; Artis huius regulae aliquae. [Leipzig, Arnoldus de Colonia], 18 July 1493

Bucolicum carmen. Köln, Arnold Ther Hoernen,1473

Bucolicum carmen. Deventer, [Richardus Pafraet], 8 January 1499-1500 [=1489] |

Canzoniere e Trionfi. [Venezia], Vindelinus de Spira,1470

Canzoniere e Trionfi. [Milano], Antonius Zarotus,1473

Canzoniere e Trionfi. Antonius de Padua: Vita di Petrarca. Venezia, [Gabriele di Pietro], not before 13 August 1473

Canzoniere e Trionfi. Antonius de Padua: Vita di Petrarca. Commento sopra il Petrarca. [Venezia], Dominicus Siliprandus, for Gaspar Siliprandus, [after 8 May] 1477

De rebus memorandis. Epistola de studiorum suorum successibus ad posteritatem. Liber de christianarum rerum memoria.[Louvain, Rodolphus Loeffs de Driel, 1483] |

De Remediis utriusque fortunae. [Heidelberg, Heinrich Knoblochtzer, not before 1490]

De remediis utriusque fortunae. Cremona, Bernardinus de Misintis, and Caesar Parmensis, 17 November 1492

De vita solitaria. [Strasbourg, The R-printer’, [=Adolf Rusch], not after 1473]

De vita solitaria. De dispositione vitae suae ad gubernatorem patriae. Milano, Uldericus Scinzenzeler, 13 August 1498

Epistola de obedentia Griseldis. Ulm, Johann Zainer,1473

Epistolae familiares. Venezia, Johannes de Gregoriis, and Gregorius de Gregoriis, 13 September 1492

Expositio in Psalterium. Francesco Petrarca: Psalmi poenitentiales. [Speyer, Peter Drach, after 1 January 1491]

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Historia Griseldis. [Köln, Ulrich Zel, about 1469] |

Historia Griseldis. Augsburg, Günther Zainer,1471 |

Historia Griseldis. [Ulm, Johann Zainer, about 1473-1474] |

Historia Griseldis. [Strasbourg, Heinrich Knoblochtzer],1478 |

Historia Griseldis. [Augsburg, Anton Sorg, 1478]

Historia Griseldis. Augsburg, Johann Bämler, 31 July 1482

Historia Griseldis. [Deventer, Richardus Pafraet, 1491-1497]

Historia Griseldis. [Augsburg, Johann Schaur, not after 1498]

Libro degli uomini famosi. Poiano, Felix Antiquarius, and Innocens Ziletus, 1 October 1476 |

Librorum Francisci Petrarche impressorum annotatio. De ignorantia suiipsius et multorum liber I. De ocio religiosorum liber I. Itinerarium propositum. Venezia, per Simone da Lovere impensis Andrea I Torresano, 1501

La novella di Gualtieri marchese di Saluzzo e Griselda figliola di Giannuccolo. [Firenze, Lorenzo Morgiani, after 31 October 1496]

La patience de Griselidis. [Lyon, Printer of the ‘Antichristus’, after 1495]

La patience de Griselidis. Paris, Jean Treperel, [about 1499-1500]

Septem psalmi poenitentiales. Pseudo- Petrarca: Novem psalmi confessionales. [Padova], Albertus de Stendal,1473

Opera Latina. Basel, Johann Amerbach,1496 | |

Secretum de contemptu mundi. Deventer, Jacobus de Breda, 12 January 1498 |

Secretum de contemptu mundi. De Vita solitaria. [Strasbourg, The R-printer’, [=Adolf Rusch], not after 1473]

Trionfi. [Firenze, Johann Petri, 22 February 1473]

Trionfi. Firenze, [Nicolaus Laurentii], 18 November 1480

Trionfi. [Firenze, Bartolommeo di Libri, about 1485]

Trionfi e Canzoniere. Venezia, Reynaldus de Novimagio, and Theodorus de Reynsburch,1478 | |

Trionfi e Canzoniere. Venezia, Petrus de Plasiis,1484

Trionfi e Canzoniere. Venezia, Peregrinus de Pasqualibus, and Dionysius Bertochus,1486

Trionfi e Canzoniere. Venezia, Bernardinus Rizus,1488

Trionfi e Canzoniere. Venezia, Petrus de Plasiis,1490

Trionfi e Canzoniere. Venezia, Petrus de Plasiis, 1491-1492 |

Trionfi e Canzoniere. Milano, Antonius Zarotus,1494

Trionfi e Canzoniere. Venezia, Bartholomaeus de Zanis,1497 |

Trionfi e Canzoniere. Venezia, Bartholomaeus de Zanis,1500

Vita Julii Caesaris. [Strasbourg, Printer of the 1472 Aquinas Summa’], 1473

Vite dei Pontefici e Imperatori Romani. Firenze, Apud Sanctum Jacobum de Ripoli, [not after 3 February] 1478-1479 |

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