The collection contains the scholarly and professional papers of Aldo S. Bernardo. The majority of the collection documents Bernardo's work translating Petrarch's works. Aldo Bernardo was a translator and Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, State University of New York at Binghamton Bernardo served as the chair of the state-wide SUNY Faculty Senate, chair of the Division of Humanities, and the founder and director of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies.