Primary Sources
NB For the different forms of primary sources, there is a bibliography here.
Aretino, Pietro, , trans. Raymond Rosenthal with contributions by Margaret Rosenthal (1972; Toronto, 2018)
Ariosto, Ludovico, 鈥楾he Pretenders / I Suppositi鈥�, trans. Edmond M. Beame and Leonard G. Sbrocchi with an introduction by Donald Beecher in , ed. Donald Beecher, 2 vols (Toronto, 2008-09), I, pp. 37-97. [To be used with one other play]
Ariosto, Ludovico, , trans. David R. Slavitt (Cambridge, Mass., 2010)
Barbaro, Giosofat, , ed. Henry Edward John Stanley and Charles Grey, trans. William Thomas and Eugene Armand Roy (London, 1873)
Beolco (Ruzante), Angelo, 鈥楾he Moscheta / La moscheta鈥�, trans. Antonio Franceschetti and Kenneth R. Bartlett in , ed. Donald Beecher, 2 vols (Toronto, 2008-09), II, pp. 163-219. [To be used with one other play]
Bibbiena, Bernardo Dovizi da, 鈥楾he Calandria / La calandria鈥�, trans. Edmond M. Beame and Leonard G. Sbrocchi with an introduction by Donald Beecher in , ed. Donald Beecher, 2 vols (Toronto, 2008-09), II, pp. 21-100. [To be used with one other play]
Castiglione, Baldesar, , trans. George Bull (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976)
Cereta, Laura, , ed. and trans. Diana Robin (Chicago, 1997)
Contarini, Gasparo, , trans. Giuseppe Pezzini and Amanda Murphy, ed. Filippo Sabetti (Toronto, 2020)
Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, trans. Lewis Lewkenor (London, 1599)
Cornaro, Alvise, , trans. Hiroko Fudemoto (Toronto, 2018)
Coryat, Thomas, '' in Thomas Coryat, Coryat's Crudities, 2 vols (Glasgow, 1905), I, pp. 301-427
Fedele, Cassandra, , ed. and trans. Diana Robin (Chicago, 2000)
Fonte, Moderata, , ed. and trans. Virginia Cox (Chicago, 1997)
Franco, Giacomo, (Venice, 1614)
Franco, Veronica, , ed. and trans. Ann Rosalind Jones and Margaret F. Rosenthal (Chicago, 1998)
Marinella, Lucrezia, , ed. and trans. Anne Dunhill with an introduction by Letizia Panizza (Chicago Press, 1999)
Mercuriale, Girolamo, , ed. and trans. Craig Martin (Philadelphia, 2021)
Moryson, Fynes, (Glasgow, 1907), vol. 1, xvii-xxi, 147-96, and 373-82 for Moryson's visit to Venice and other parts of the Venetian mainland empire.
Palladio, Andrea, , trans. Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield (Cambridge, Mass., 1997)
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, , ed. and trans. Vaughan Hart and Peter Hicks (New Haven, 2017)
Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, , ed. Donald Beecher, trans. W.G. Waters, 2 vols (Toronto, 2012-2017) [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, , ed. and trans. Letizia Panizza (Chicago, 2004)
Tasso, Torquato, , trans. Max Wickert, ed. Mark Davie (Oxford, 2009)
Vasari, Giorgio, , 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, (Venice, 1590)
Wotton, Sir Henry, The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, ed. Logan Pearsall Smith, 2 vols (Oxford, 1907), and [The English ambassador to Venice 1603-11, 1615-19, 1620-23]
Zeno the Younger, Nicol貌, , ed. Richard Henry Major (London, 1873)