If anything gratifies you in these letters of mine, I freely concede that it is not really mine but yours; that is to say, the credit is due not to my ability but to your good-will. You will find no great eloquence or vigour of expression in them. Indeed I do not possess these powers, and if I did, in ever so high a degree, there would be no place for them in this kind of composition. Even Cicero, who was renowned for these abilities, does not manifest them in his letters, nor even in his treatises, where, as he himself says, the language is characterised by a certain evenness and moderation.

Petrarch: Familiar Letters

Petrarch made a collection of the letters he wrote. Divided into 24 books, there are a total of 350 letters. Due to copyrights of the English translations they can not all be shown here. However, some translations are available and they are included below. A complete list of letters from this collection as titled by Aldo S. Bernardo is also available.

			Petrarch's Preface to his First Collection of Letters*
I	-	III	An Excursion to Paris, the Netherlands, and the Rhine*
I	-	IV	An Excursion to Paris, the Netherlands, and the Rhine* Iohanni Columnae Cardinali salutem plurimam dicit (Latin)
I	-	VI	His Aversion to Logicians*
II	-	IX	Reply regarding Laura (incomplete)
IV	-	I	The Ascent of Mount Ventoux* La montée du bâti Ventoux (French) Die Besteigung des Mont Ventoux (German) de ascensu montis Ventosi (Latin)
IX	-	XV	Ignorance and Presumption Rebuked*
X	-	IV	On the Nature of Poetry*
XIII	-	VII	Petrarch's Passion for Work*
XIII	-	XII	On the Scarcity of Copyists*
XXI	-	II	The Visit to the GoldSmith ar Bergamo*
XXI	-	XV	Petrarch Discalims all Jealousy of Dante*
XXIII	-	XIX	The Young Humanist of Ravenna*
XXIV	-	II	The Old Grammarian of Vicenza*
XXIV	-	III	To Cicero* epistola ad Marcum Tullium Ciceronem (Latin)
XXIV	-	IV	To Cicero*
XXIV	-	XII	To Homer*

* Translated by James Harvey Robinson (New York: G.P. Putnam, 1898) The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters