Primærlitteratur:
Francesco Petrarca: Letters on Familiar Matters: Rerum Familiarum Libri XVII–XXIV. Ed. and transl. Aldo S. Bernardo (Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 1985). Utvalg.
The Letters of Catherine of Siena. Edition and translation with introduction and notes by Suzanne Noffke (Tempe AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2000–2008). Utvalg.
Margherita Dantini, Letters to Francesco Dantini. Ed. Carolyne James (University of Toronto Press, 2012). Utvalg.
Poggio Bracciolini, Two Renaissance Book Hunters: The Letters of Poggius Bracciolini to Nicolaus De Niccolis. Translated and edited by Phyllis Walter Goodhart Gordon (New York: Columbia University Press, 1974). Utvalg. (online UB)
Laura Cereta, Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist (University of Chicago Press, 1997). Utvalg.
Mark Jurdjevic and Meredith K. Ray, Machiavelli: Political, Historical, and Literary Writings (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019). Utvalg.
The Prettiest Love Letters in the World: Letters between Lucrezia Borgia and Pietro Bembo, 1503 to 1519. Trans. Hugh Shankland. (London: Collins Harvill, 1987). Utvalg.
Erasmus, Desiderius. “On the Writing of Letters.” In Collected Works of Erasmus. Vol. 25. Literary and Educational Writings 3. Edited by J. K. Sowards and translated and annotated by Charles Fantazzi, 1–254 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985). 255–268.
Deanna Shemek (ed.), Isabella d’Este, Selected Letters (ACMRS Publications, 2017). Utvalg.
Columbus, Christopher. The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters, and Dispatches with Connecting Narrative Drawn from the Life of the Admiral by His Son Hernando Colón and Other Contemporary Historians. Edited and translated by J. M. Cohen. (London: Penguin, 1992. Finnes som pocket) “First voyage. 1492-3”. 27–127.
Meredith K. Ray, Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo: Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pocket 2018). 67–85.
Sekundærlitteratur
Guillén, Claudio. “Notes toward the Study of the Renaissance Letter.” I Barbara K. Lewalski (ed.), Renaissance Genres: Essays on Theory, History, Interpretation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986). 70–110.
John M Najemy, “Renaissance Epistolarity.” I Between Friends: Discourses of Power and Desire in the Machiavelli-Vettori Letters of 1513–1515 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993). 18–57. (online UB)
Paul F. Grendler, “Rhetoric.” I Schooling in Renaissance Italy: Literacy and Learning, 1300–1600 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989). 203–234 (online UB)
Findlen, Paula and Suzanne Sutherlands (eds.), The Renaissance of Letters: Knowledge and Community in Italy, 1300-1650 (Routledge, 2019). (online UB)
Witt, Ronald G. “Medieval Ars Dictaminis and the Beginnings of Humanism: A New Construction of the Problem.” Renaissance Quarterly 35 (1982): 1–35. (online UB)
Falkeid, Unn, “I skyttel mellom liv og skrift. Petrarca og brevene,” i Unn Falkeid and Håkan Trygger (eds.), Aiolos: tidskrift för litteratur, teori och estetik 50-51 (2015). 5–13.
Jane Tylus, “Mystical Literacy: Writing and Religious Women in Late Medieval Italy”, i A Companion to Catherine of Siena, eds. Carolyne Muessig, George Ferzoco, and Beverly Mayne Kienzle (Brill, 2012).155–184.
Carolyn James, “A Woman’s Pass to Literacy: The Letters of Margherita Datini, 1384-1410”, in Megan Cassidy-Welch and Peter Sherlock (eds.) Practices of Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008). 43–56.
Gordon Braden, “Applied Petrarchism: The Loves of Pietro Bernbo”, Modern Language Quarterly, 1996, Vol. 57 (3). 397-423 (online UB).
Fantazzi, Charles. “Vives versus Erasmus on the Art of Letter Writing.” In Self-Presentation and Social Identification: The Rhetoric and Pragmatics of Letter Writing in Early Modern Times. Eds. Toon van Houdt, Jan Papy, Gilbert Tournoy, and Constant Matheeussen, (Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2002). 39–56.
Mack, Peter. “Letter-Writing Manuals.” In A History of Renaissance Rhetoric, 1380–1620. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). 228–256
McLean, Paul D. The Art of the Network: Strategic Interaction and Patronage in Renaissance Florence (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2007. Finnes som pocket).
Ray, Meredith K., Writing Gender in Women's Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance (Toronto University Press, 2009) (Online UB)
Steedman, Carolyn. “Space of Memory: In an Archive.” History of the Human Sciences 11.4 (1998): 65–83 (Online UB)