Principal Works
*Rerum familiarium libra [Books on Personal Matters] (letters) 1325-1366
†Rerum vulgarium fragmenta [Canzoniere] (poetry) begun 1330s
De viris illustribus [On Illustrious Men] (biographies) begun 1337
Africa (unfinished epic poem) begun 1338-1339
Trionfi [The Triumphs] (unfinished poem) begun 1338
Secretum [Petrarch's Secret] (dialogues) begun 1342-1343
Rerum memorandarum libri [Books on Matters to Be Remembered] (prose) begun 1342-1343
Psalmi poemitentiales [Penitential Psalms] (poetry) begun 1342-1343
De otio religioso [On Religious Idleness] (essay) 1345-1347
Bucolicum carmen [Bucolic Song] (poetry) begun 1345-1347
De vita solitaria [On the Solitary Life] (essay) 1345-1347
Liber sine nomine [Petrarch's Book without a Name] (letters) 1351-1353
De remediis utriusque fortunae [Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul] (dialogues) begun 1353
Epistolae seniles [Letters of Old Age] (letters) 1361-1374
De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia [On His Own Ignorance and That of Many Others] (essay) 1367
Letters from Petrarch [translated by Morris Bishop] (letters) 1966
Petrarch's Lyric Poems: The "Rime Sparse" and Other Lyrics [translated by Robert M. Durling] (poetry) 1976
Rime Disperse [translated by Joseph A. Barber] (poetry) 1991
*These letters are also collectively known as the Familiares.
†This work is also known as the Rhymes, Rime, and Rime sparse.
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