1
Figures in bold type refer to the Supplementary Bibliography.
2
G. Billanovich, Petrarca letterato, I. Lo Scrittoio del Petrarca (Roma, 1947), ch. 3, observes that for centuries sententiae of Petrarch's were declaimed from pulpits. On auctores see E. R. Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (London, 1953), ch. 3.
3
There is no complete modern edition of the Latin works. The Edizione Nazionale will eventually comprise all of them, but at present only includes Africa, De Rebus familiaribus, and De Rebus memorandis. The text of some works and a selection from others, with an Italian translation, are given in Petrarca: Prose (La Letteratura italiana - Storia e testi, vol. 7, ed. G. Martellotti and others, Milano, 1955).
4
Bersuire's friendship with Petrarch is attested by De Rebus familiaribus, xxii. 13 and 14, and Neumarkt's by De Rebus familiaribus, xxi. 2 and 5, and seven other extant letters. See also W. P. Friederich, Dante's Fame Abroad 1350-1850 (Roma, 1950), 342.
5
See E. H. Wilkins, 'A General Survey of Renaissance Petrarchism' Comparative Literature ii (1950), 327-42 (reprinted in Studies in the Life and Works of Petrarch, Cambridge, Mass., 1955).
6
H. G. Wright, Boccaccio in England from Chaucer to Tennyson (London, 1957), Conclusion.
7
This and the following information on editions is taken from Mary Fowler (ed.), Cornell University Library: Catalogue of the Petrarch Collection (Oxford, 1916), supplemented by Willard Fiske, Bibliographical Notices III. Francis Petrarch's Treatise De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae, Text and Versions (Florence, 1888). Although medieval taste is to a considerable extent carried over into the sixteenth century, the literary preferences of that period are not directly relevant to this study, and only fifteenth-century editions have been noted.
8
The popularity of this work in the medieval tradition may be compares with the fact that the more humanistic Africa was not printed separately until 1874.
9
Joan Ruiz i Calonja, Història de la literatura catalana (Barcelona, 1954), 160. Cf. Rafael Lapesa, La obra literaria del Marqués de Santillana (Madrid, 1957), 42. The claim is more valid for Castile than for France: cf. p. 34 below.
10
Cf. R. B. Tate, 'López de Ayala, Humanist Historian?', HR, xxv (1957), 157-74.