Dunn, Kevin, Pretexts of Authority: The Rhetoric of Authorship in the Renaissance Preface, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1994. 

Eckerle, Julie A., “Prefacing Texts, Authorizing Authors, and Constructing Selves: The Preface as Autobiographical Space” in Genre and Women’s Life Writing in Early Modern England, Michelle M. Dowd and Julie A. Eckerle, eds, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007, pp. 97-113.

Genette, Gérard, Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Santoro, Marco, “Nulla di più ma neppure nulla di meno: l’indagine paratestuale”, in Biblioteca di Paratesto. I dintorni del testo. Approcci alle periferie del libro. Atti del convegno internazionale. Roma, Bologna, 2004, pp. 3-13

Smith, Helen and Louise Wilson, eds, Renaissance Paratexts, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Terzoli, Maria A, “I margini dell’opera nei libri di poesia: Strategie e convenzioni dedicatorie nel Petrarchismo italiano”, Neohelicon, 37, 2010, pp. 155-180.

For detailed bibliography paratexts see the project I margini del libro:, [a project for the study and cataloguing of dedications in the Italian tradition. It was directed by Maria Antonietta Terzoli (University of Basel) and financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation, from ]
https://www.margini.unibas.ch/web/en/index.html [last accessed on 19 December 2024]