Primary Sources: Europe: Italy

transcribed, translated, and edited by Anne Jacobson Schutte.

The Complete, Unabridged Diaries of Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, 1936-1943

"Renaissance writer Laura Cereta (1469–1499) presents feminist issues in a predominantly male venue—the humanist autobiography in the form of personal letters. Cereta's works circulated widely in Italy during the early modern era, but her complete letters have never before been published in English."
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo3640062.html

translated by Robert Lumley and Jude Bloomfield
"...based on the oral life histories of about 70 men and women workers, born between the end of the last century and 1920, which are combined with sources such as police reports, documentary films and judicial documents."
Description from Google Books

: A Short History with Documents

Selected Works by and about the women Humanists of Quattrocento Italy

sources and documents

Translated variously from Latin, Italian, Arabic, Spanish, Hebrew, or Greek.

Family Memoirs of a Fifteenth-Century Tuscan Peasant

edited and translated by Elaine Maclachlan ; with an introduction by Giovanna Rabitti

"...presents over one hundred fascinating documents, carefully selected and coordinated from the richest, most innovative and most documented society of the European Middle Ages: the urban civilization of Italy."
Description from Amazon.com

The Diaries of Buonaccorso Pitti and Gregorio Dati. Translated by Julia Martines.