Petrarch's Letters to Classical Authors

PETRARCH’S LETTERS TO CLASSICAL AUTHORS
TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN WITH A COMMENTARY BY
MARIO EMILIO COSENZA, Ph.D.
Instructor in Latin in The College of the City of New York
CHICAGO THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS 1910
Copyright 1910 By The University of Chicago
Published March 1910
Composed and Printed By The University of Chicago Press Chicago, Illinois, U. S. A.
TO MY MOTHER AND TO MY FATHER


It is hardly necessary to dwell upon Petrarch’s extensive correspondence. He was the leader of the learned men of his age; and it is common knowledge that all his prominent contemporaries—whether in the political world, or in the religious world, or in the scholarly world—were numbered among his friends.