Francesco Nelli of Florence was secretary to the bishop Angelo Acciaiuoli I and a pastor at the Prior of the Church of the Holy Apostles in Florence. Florence ( Italian: Firenze Florentia and Fiorenza) is the Capital City of the Italian region of Tuscany Nelli corresponded much with Francesco Petrarch as is evident by the fifty letters still existing of his to Petrarch and thirty-eight letters still existing from Petrarch to him. Francesco Petrarca ( July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374) known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar Six of the nineteen letters of Liber sine nomine are addressed to Nelli. The Liber sine nomine ("The Book without a Name" is a collection of nineteen letters written in Latin by the fourteenth century Italian poet and Renaissance
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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's Book Without A Name - English translation of Liber Sine Nomine by Norman P. Zacour - 1973 ISBN 0-88844-260-4 (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
- University of Florida, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures ITT 3530 special topics
- Biography describes Petrarch becoming friends with Francesco Nelli, Ildebrandino Conti, Giovanni Boccaccio, Lapo da Castiglionchio, and Zanobi da Strada . Ildebrandino Conti was an Italian churchman and a member of the Conti family a noble Roman family Lapo da Castiglionchio ( c 1316 - d 1381) was born in Rome and referred to as "Lepo the Elder Zanobi da Strada was an Italian translator and correspondent of Petrarch.