Francesco Nelli (

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, 1363) was the secretary of bishop Angelo Acciaioli I and a pastor at the Prior of the Church of the Holy Apostles in Florence. Nelli corresponded much with Francesco Petrarch as is evident by the fifty letters still existing of his to Petrarch, and the thirty-eight letters still existing from Petrarch to him. Six of the nineteen letters of Petrarch's ''

Liber sine nomine The ' (''The Book without a Name'') is a collection of nineteen personal letters written in Latin by the fourteenth century Italian poet and Renaissance humanist Petrarch. The letters being harshly critical of the Avignon papacy, they were withhe ...

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''Liber Sine Nomine'' in Latin with letters # 6, #, 9, # 10, # 17, # 18, and # 19 to the priest Francesco Nelli of Florence
*Petrarch (1973). Norman P. Zacour (tr.). ''Petrarch's Book Without A Name''. . (Page 60)
Petrarch letters in JSTOR Modern Language Notes, Volume LXV May, 1950 Number 5 (ref: Francesco Nelli of Florence)

JSTOR Petrarch's Laelius, Chaucer's Lollius by Lillian Herlands Hornstein PMLA, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Mar., 1948), pp. 64-84
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20120416231102/http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/P/petrarchfrancesco/1.html "Petrach, Francesco (1304-1374)" Biography describes Petrarch becoming friends with Francesco Nelli, Ildebrandino Conti, Giovanni Boccaccio, Lapo da Castiglionchio, and

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