Poets: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

The melancholic figure of a poet leaning on an inscribed block of stone. Engraving by A.B., 16--, after J. de Ribera, ca. 1620.

Six Italian men of letters. Engraving after G. Vasari, 1543.

Petrarch : poet and humanist, 1304-74 catalogue of an exhibition held in the Bible Room, British Museum, 14 June to 15 September 1974 / [organised by] the British Library.

4 unnumbered pages, xii, 139, 156 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations (engraving) ; 17 cm (8vo)

Description de la fontaine de Vaucluse : suivi d'un essai sur l'histoire naturelle de cette source, auquel on a joint une notice sur la vie et les écrits de Pétrarque. Ouvrage annoncé par l'Athénée de Vaucluse / par J. Guérin.

Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch). Engraving after A. del Castagno.

The life of Petrarch . Collected from Memoires pour la vie de Petrarch. By Mrs. Dobson. Third edition, embellished with eight copper-plates, ... In two volumes.

Verses written at the fountain of Vaucluse, in May 1798

Hülff, Trost und Rath in allem Anligen der Menschen ... zwei Trostbücher, von Artznei und Rath beyde im gůten und widerwertigen Glück / [Francesco Petrarca].

Online resource (volumes, illustrations).

Epistolae familiares. Ed: Sebastianus Manilius.

Le cose uolgari di messer Francesco Petrarcha.

Online resource (78 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : woodcut frontispiece, (4to)).

Prose antiche di Dante, Petrarcha, et Boccaccio et di molti altri nobili et virtvosi ingegni nouamente raccolte.

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Epistolae familiares. Ed: Sebastianus Manilius.

Le cose uolgari di messer Francesco Petrarcha.

Prose antiche di Dante, Petrarcha, et Boccaccio et di molti altri nobili et virtvosi ingegni nouamente raccolte.

Trionfi.

Canzoniere e Trionfi.

Petrarch : poet and humanist, 1304-74 catalogue of an exhibition held in the Bible Room, British Museum, 14 June to 15 September 1974 / [organised by] the British Library.

Description de la fontaine de Vaucluse : suivi d'un essai sur l'histoire naturelle de cette source, auquel on a joint une notice sur la vie et les écrits de Pétrarque. Ouvrage annoncé par l'Athénée de Vaucluse / par J. Guérin.

Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch). Engraving after A. del Castagno.

The life of Petrarch . Collected from Memoires pour la vie de Petrarch. By Mrs. Dobson. Third edition, embellished with eight copper-plates, ... In two volumes.

Verses written at the fountain of Vaucluse, in May 1798

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Epistolae familiares. Ed: Sebastianus Manilius.

Le cose uolgari di messer Francesco Petrarcha.

Prose antiche di Dante, Petrarcha, et Boccaccio et di molti altri nobili et virtvosi ingegni nouamente raccolte.

Trionfi.

Canzoniere e Trionfi.

Petrarch : poet and humanist, 1304-74 catalogue of an exhibition held in the Bible Room, British Museum, 14 June to 15 September 1974 / [organised by] the British Library.

Description de la fontaine de Vaucluse : suivi d'un essai sur l'histoire naturelle de cette source, auquel on a joint une notice sur la vie et les écrits de Pétrarque. Ouvrage annoncé par l'Athénée de Vaucluse / par J. Guérin.

Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch). Engraving after A. del Castagno.

The life of Petrarch . Collected from Memoires pour la vie de Petrarch. By Mrs. Dobson. Third edition, embellished with eight copper-plates, ... In two volumes.

Verses written at the fountain of Vaucluse, in May 1798

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