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Life and times of Petrarch. With notices of Boccacio and his illustrious contemporaries

Campbell, Thomas, 1777-1844, Pfister, J. G. (Johann Georg) · 1843 · London : H. Colburn · 4 pictures

A two-volume English biography of Petrarch by the poet Thomas Campbell, published by Colburn in London in 1843, with appended coin notes by the numismatist J. G. Pfister for literary and antiquarian readers. Plates show medieval Italian silver coins floated on blank pages with ruled leader lines and small numbers, alongside enlarged single coins and a stipple profile portrait set in an oval cartouche with putti.

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374 · Numismatics -- Italy

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