This volume addresses a far-reaching aspects of Petrarch research and interpretation: the essential interplay between Petrarch's texts and their material preparation and reception. To read and interpret Petrarch we must come to grips with the fundamentals of Petrarchan philology.

Teodolinda Barolini, Ph.D. (1978) Columbia University, is Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian at Columbia University and the author of Dante's Poets (Princeton, 1984), The Undivine Comedy (Princeton, 1992) and Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture (Fordham, 2006).
H. Wayne Storey, Ph.D. (1983) Columbia University, is Professor of Italian at Indiana University and Editor-in-Chief of Textual Cultures. His studies of Petrarch include Transcription and Visual Poetics (Garland, 1993), "Voce e grafia nei Triumphi", and his essays in the 2003-2004 facsimile edition of the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (Antenore).