NB For the different forms of primary sources, there is a bibliography here.

Aretino, Pietro, Aretino's DialoguesLink opens in a new window, trans. Raymond Rosenthal with contributions by Margaret Rosenthal (1972; Toronto, 2018)

Ariosto, Ludovico, ‘The Pretenders / I Suppositi’, trans. Edmond M. Beame and Leonard G. Sbrocchi with an introduction by Donald Beecher in Renaissance Comedy: The Italian MastersLink opens in a new window, ed. Donald Beecher, 2 vols (Toronto, 2008-09), I, pp. 37-97. [To be used with one other play]

Ariosto, Ludovico, Orlando Furioso: A New Verse TranslationLink opens in a new window, trans. David R. Slavitt (Cambridge, Mass., 2010)

Barbaro, Giosofat, Travels to Tana and Persia, and A Narrative of Italian Travels in Persia in the 15th and 16th CenturiesLink opens in a new window, ed. Henry Edward John Stanley and Charles Grey, trans. William Thomas and Eugene Armand Roy (London, 1873)

Beolco (Ruzante), Angelo, ‘The Moscheta / La moscheta’, trans. Antonio Franceschetti and Kenneth R. Bartlett in Renaissance Comedy: The Italian MastersLink opens in a new window, ed. Donald Beecher, 2 vols (Toronto, 2008-09), II, pp. 163-219. [To be used with one other play]

Bibbiena, Bernardo Dovizi da, ‘The Calandria / La calandria’, trans. Edmond M. Beame and Leonard G. Sbrocchi with an introduction by Donald Beecher in Renaissance Comedy: The Italian MastersLink opens in a new window, ed. Donald Beecher, 2 vols (Toronto, 2008-09), II, pp. 21-100. [To be used with one other play]

Castiglione, Baldesar, The Book of the CourtierLink opens in a new window, trans. Leonard Eckstein Opdyke (New York, 1903)

Cereta, Laura, Collected Letters of a Renaissance FeministLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Diana Robin (Chicago, 1997)

Contarini, Gasparo, The Commonwealth and Government of VeniceLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, trans. Lewis Lewkenor (London, 1599)

Copia Sulam, Sarra, Jewish Poet and Intellectual in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Works of Sarra Copia Sulam in Verse and Prose, Along with Writings of her Contemporaries in her Praise, Condemnation, or DefenseLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Don Harrán (Chicago, 2009)

Cornaro, Alvise, Writings on the Sober Life: The Art and Grace of Living LongLink opens in a new window, trans. Hiroko Fudemoto (Toronto, 2018)

Coryat, Thomas, 'Observations of Venice' in Thomas Coryat, Coryat's Crudities, 2 vols (Glasgow, 1905), I, pp. 301-427

Fedele, Cassandra, Letters and OrationsLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Diana Robin (Chicago, 2000)

Ferrazzi, Cecilia, Autobiography of an Aspiring SaintLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Anne Jacobson Schutte (Chicago, 1996)

Fonte, Moderata, Floridoro: A Chivalric RomanceLink opens in a new window, ed. Valeria Finucci, trans. Julia Kisacky, annotated Valeria Finucci and Julia Kisacky (Chicago, 2006)

Fonte, Moderata, The Worth of Women: Wherein is Clearly Revealed their Nobility and their Superiority to MenLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Virginia Cox (Chicago, 1997)

Franco, Giacomo, Habiti d'huomeni et donne venetiane, con la processione della Serma Signoria et altri particolari, cioè trionfi, feste et cerimonie publiche della nobilissima città di VenetiaLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window (Venice, 1614)

Franco, Veronica, Poems and Selected LettersLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Ann Rosalind Jones and Margaret F. Rosenthal (Chicago, 1998)

Marinella, Lucrezia, The Nobility and Excellence of Women, and the Defects and Vices of MenLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Anne Dunhill with an introduction by Letizia Panizza (Chicago Press, 1999)

Mercuriale, Girolamo, On Pestilence: A Renaissance Treatise on PlagueLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Craig Martin (Philadelphia, 2021)

Morata, Olympia Fulvia, The Complete Writings of an Italian HereticLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Holt N. Parker (Chicago, 2003)

Nogarola, Isotta, Complete Writings: Letterbook, Dialogue on Adam and EveLink opens in a new window, Orations, ed. and trans. Margaret L. King and Diana Robin (Chicago, 2004)

Palladio, Andrea, The Four Books on ArchitectureLink opens in a new window, trans. Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield (Cambridge, Mass., 1997)

Riccoboni, Bartolomea, Life and Death in a Venetian Convent: the Chronicle and Necrology of Corpus Domini, 1395-1436Link opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Daniel Bornstein (Chicago, 2000)

Roscoe, Thomas, trans., The Italian Novelists, 4 vols (London, 1825) [Vol. II for novelle (short stories) by Sabadino degli Arienti, Luigi da Porto (the original tale of Romeo and Juliet), and Giovambattista Giraldi Cinzio. Vol. III for novelle by Matteo Bandello and Cello Malespini]

Sansovino, Francesco, Sansovino's Venice: A Translation of Francesco Tatti da Sansovino's Guidebook to Venice of 1561Link opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Vaughan Hart and Peter Hicks (New Haven, 2017)

Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, The Pleasant Nights, ed. Donald Beecher, trans. W.G. Waters, 2 vols (Toronto, 2012-2017), vol. ILink opens in a new window and vol. IILink opens in a new window [The First Night 'Greetings from Orfeo della Carta' and 'Proem'; The Sixth-Thirteenth Nights 'Greetings from Giovanni Francesco Straparola'; and your choice of tales]

Tarabotti, Arcangela, Letters Familiar and FormalLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Meredith K. Ray and Lynn Lara Westwater (Toronto, 2012)

Tarabotti, Arcangela, Paternal TyrannyLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Letizia Panizza (Chicago, 2004)

Tasso, Torquato, The Liberation of Jerusalem (Gerusalemme liberata)Link opens in a new window, trans. Max Wickert, ed. Mark Davie (Oxford, 2009)

Vasari, Giorgio, The Lives of the ArtistsLink opens in a new window, trans. and ed. Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella (Oxford, 1998) [The Prefaces to Parts One, Two, and Three, and your choice of lives. Artists who worked in Venice and the Veneto include: Paolo Uccello; Donatello; Antonello da Messina; Andrea del Castagno; Andrea del Verrocchio; Giorgione; and Titian. Artists who worked at the princely courts of northern and central Italy include: Piero della Francesca; Leon Battista Alberti; Mantegna; Leonardo da Vinci; Raphael; and Giulio Romano].

Vecellio, Cesare, Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il MondoLink opens in a new window (Venice, 1598)

Wotton, Sir Henry, The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, ed. Logan Pearsall Smith, 2 vols (Oxford, 1907), vol. 1Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new windowand vol. 2 Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window[The English ambassador to Venice 1603-11, 1615-19, 1620-23]

Zeno the Younger, Nicolò, Voyages of the Venetian Brothers, Nicolò and Antonio Zeno, to the Northern Seas, in the XIVth Century: Comprising the Latest Known Accounts of the Lost Colony of Greenland; and of the Northmen in America before ColumbusLink opens in a new window, ed. Richard Henry Major (London, 1873)