Francesco Nelli (

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, 1363) was the secretary of bishop

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and a pastor at the Prior of the Church of the Holy Apostles in Florence. He corresponded with

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, sending fifty surviving letters to him and receiving thirty-eight. Six of the nineteen letters of Petrarch's '' Liber sine nomine'' are addressed to Nelli.

References

''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,

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, Lapo da Castiglionchio, and

Zanobi da Strada Zanobi da Strada (1312 – 1361 in Avignon), was an Italian translator, scholar and correspondent of Petrarch and a friend of Giovanni Boccaccio. He was born in Strata or Strada in Chianti, a hamlet or neighborhood within the town of Greve in C ...

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