↑ This designation appears, for instance, in a recent reviewเก็บถาวร 2012-10-25 ที่ เวย์แบ็กแมชชีน of Carol Quillen's Rereading the Renaissance.
↑ In the Prose della volgar lingua, Bembo proposes Petrarch and Boccaccio as models of Italian style, while expressing reservations about emulating Dante's usage.
↑ Renaissance or Prenaissance, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 4, No. 1. (Jan. 1943), pp. 69–74; Theodore E. Mommsen, "Petrarch's Conception of the 'Dark Ages'" Speculum 17.2 (April 1942: 226–242); JSTOR link to a collection of several letters in the same issue.
